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7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Ankara Turkey

Powerful earthquake shakes eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck eastern Turkey Sunday, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths, officials said. At least 50 people were injured. The temblor struck eastern Van province at 6:41 a.m. ET, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It caused widespread panic throughout the province as well as neighboring cities. "The quake was strongly felt in Van and neighboring towns, and caused damage and deaths based on initial assessments,"

The earthquake toppled some buildings in downtown Van as well as the neighboring town of Ercis, officials said. Several strong aftershocks also were reported.






There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed. There is too much destruction, Van's airport was damaged and planes were being diverted to neighboring cities. Terrified residents spilled into the streets in panic as rescue workers and residents using their bare hands and shovels struggled to evacuate people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings, television footage showed. In Van, at least two buildings collapsed, Bekir Kaya, the mayor of Van town, told NTV. One of them was a seven-story building.

Turkey's Kandilli observatory gave the quake a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, but put its depth at 5 3 miles. Several aftershocks as strong as magnitude 5.5 followed >>> Second Turkey Earthquake

The quake's epicenter was in the village of Tabanli in eastern Van province, bordering Iran. But it was felt in several provinces across the area.
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