Earthquake hit Turkey
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near Van in southeastern Turkey on 23rd of October. Some buildings had collapsed and killed more than 200 people and trapped an unknown number under rubble.
Strong earthquake hits Turkey, up to 1,000 feared killedLONDON | Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:59am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit 35 km (22 miles) northeast of the Turkish city of Van on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The earthquake at 1041 GMT was 94.5 km deep, it said. Van is close to the Iranian border.
Turkey earthquake leaves as many as 1,000 people feared deadMany hundreds of people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey, destroying dozens of buildings including a student dormitory and leaving many more victims trapped in the rubble.239 dead, more than 1,300 wounded in eastern Turkey: Atalay - Hurriyet Daily News
We at the Hürriyet Daily News feel that as a country that has active fault lines running across its territory, Turkey is emotionally and -tectonically- tied to earthquakes that claim lives and leave many in devastation. In honor of that bond, and to draw attention to the tragedies caused by quakes, we offer a small portion of our earthquake coverage.The earthquake was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks, also centred north of Van, including two of magnitude 5.6 soon after the quake and one of 6.0 late on Sunday.
Earthquake Video From Apartment in Van, TurkeyUgo Nonis on His Work of Art Elimination: "I Don't Think Keith Haring Owns Lines" The above cameraphone video (via @stevesilberman) was taken from inside an apartment during the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Van, Turkey. It's titled, "VAN DEPREM SON DAKİKA," which, according to Google Translate, means "Van earthquake last minute."- Earthquake TURKEY (23.10.2011) - YouTube1 day ago ... Earthquake in Van, Turkey, 7.2 magnitude - 23/10/2011 http ://earthquake.usgs. gov/ ... You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. ...
Turkey scrambles to reach earthquake victimsRescue workers in Turkey are scrambling to dig people out of the rubble after a 7.2 earthquake struck the eastern Van province. At least 85 people had been killed by Sunday evening, state-run TRT television reported, but the country's seismology institute said up to 1,000 people could be trapped under collapsed buildings.Van is a city in southeastern Turkey and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. Earthquake appears to have occurred near the
junction of two mountain belts, the Zagros and the Alborz ranges, that have been produced by this collision.
M 7.2 earthquake near Van, eastern Turkey | Highly AllochthonousEarlier this morning, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near the city of Van on the eastern border of Turkey. The BBC reports that at least 45 people have died as buildings collapsed close to the rupture.Lighter but well-felt ground motions spread much farther across the region, extending into surrounding countries such as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, Georgia, Syria and Iraq.
Deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Van, eastern TurkeyVery strong 7-2 earthquake struck 16 km (9 miles) NNE of Van, 118 km (73 miles) N of Hakkari, 127 km (78 miles) SSE of Agri (Karakose), Turkey (38.628°N, 43.486°E) at depth of 20 km (12.4 miles) set by location program. The earthquake was felt in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Israel.Information about death toll is changing minute by minute. According to the Anatolian News Agency 1150 people were injured in the earthquake adding that 970 buildings were demolished.
Strong Earthquake Rocks Eastern TurkeyA number of injuries were reported, the Anatolia news agency said, and one death was immediately confirmed. Officials warned, however, that they were struggling to assess the full extent of the damage and that the death toll could rise.- 500 Internal Server Error1 day ago ... At least 138 people were killed Sunday when the most powerful earthquake in more than a decade struck eastern Turkey, the prime minister ...
Reactions to Turkey earthquake on Twitter:
I hope people are ok in Turkey! There was a 7.2 earthquake??I sure LOVED playing in Istanbul Sending love and hopeful thoughts. #love4turkey
An EU with Turkey will be a stronger and more credible global player in the future - must be our strategic perspective. t.co/f9TUShiXMany countries offer help and condolences to Turkey after the
earthquake: Azerbaijan, The United States, Britain, Greece, Pakistan, Israel, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Bulgaria,
Georgia, China, Ukraine, Russia, Canada, South Korea, Japan,
Iran, Kosovo, the EU, NATO and the UN. Israel also had offered its assistance but Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Ankara has declined this offer.Israel to offer Turkey earthquake aid
JERUSALEM, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday afternoon instructed the head of his ministry's political-military affairs department to contact Turkish officials in order to offer Ankara "all the help it needs" in recovering from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake centered in the southeast of the country.
Earthquake hits southeastern Turkey; Israel offers to helpAn estimated 500 to 1,000 people were killed in a powerful earthquake that struck southeast Turkey's Van province on Sunday, director of the Kandilli seismological institute in Istanbul told reporters. "Five hundred to 1,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the quake," Mustafa Erdik said.Two earthquakes in 1999 with a magnitude of more than 7 killed almost 20,000 people in densely populated parts of the north-west of the country. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, killed more than 17,000 people in 1999, according to the USGS. A magnitude 7.2
tremor in Duzce the same year killed 894 people, the USGS reported.
