A 7. 2 Magnitude Earthquake hit Turkey. See Pictures below:
Read the full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/23/us-turkey-quake-idUSTRE79M10Z20111023
According to reuters.com that as many as many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey, flattening buildings and leaving survivors crying for help from under the rubble.
"The death toll is rising. Rescue teams are taking out dead bodies all the time," Reuters photographer Osman Orsal said in Ercis, a town of 100,000 some 100 km (60 miles) north of Van where a student dormitory collapsed.
In Van, an ancient city on a lake ringed by snow-capped mountains and with a population of 1 million, cranes were used to shift the rubble of a crumpled six-storey apartment block where bystanders reckoned there were around 70 people trapped.
In Van, an ancient city on a lake ringed by snow-capped mountains and with a population of 1 million, cranes were used to shift the rubble of a crumpled six-storey apartment block where bystanders reckoned there were around 70 people trapped.
Read the full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/23/us-turkey-quake-idUSTRE79M10Z20111023
