Huge earthquake hits southeast Turkey

    Updated: 2011-10-24 07:33

    By Jonathon Burch (China Daily)

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    Huge earthquake hits southeast Turkey
    Survivors react after seeing the damage caused by an earthquake in the eastern Turkish city of Van on Sunday. [Photo by Abdurrahman Antakyali / Anadolu Agency Via Reuters] 

     

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    Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said 117 were killed in Ercis, another 100 died in Van while some 740 people were injured in the temblor that also rattled parts of Iran and Armenia.

     

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    VAN, Turkey - Up to a 1,000 people are feared dead after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit southeast Turkey on Sunday, triggering the collapse of dozens of buildings across the region, the Kandilli Observatory said.

    Emergency workers battled to rescue people trapped in buildings in the city of Van and surrounding districts on the banks of Lake Van, near Turkey's border with Iran.

    Some 10 buildings collapsed in Van city and about 25-30 buildings were brought to the ground in the nearby district of Ercis, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said.

    "We estimate around 1,000 buildings are damaged and our estimate is for hundreds of lives lost. It could be 500 or 1,000," Kandilli Observatory general manager Mustafa Erdik told a news conference.

    Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was traveling to Van and the cabinet was expected to discuss the quake at a meeting called for Monday morning.

    "A lot of buildings collapsed, many people were killed, but we don't know the number. We are waiting for emergency help, it's very urgent," Zulfukar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis, told news broadcaster NTV.

    Huge earthquake hits southeast Turkey
    People rescue two women trapped under debris in Van, eastern Turkey, on Sunday. [Photo by Ali Ihsan Ozturk, Anatolia / Associated Press] 

    Cihan news agency said 30 people had been killed in Ercis district.

    "We need tents urgently and rescue teams. We don't have any ambulances, and we only have one hospital. We have many killed and injured," he said.

    Turkey's Red Crescent said one of its local teams was helping to rescue people from a student residence in Ercis.

    It said it was sending tents, blankets and food to the region.

    More than 20 aftershocks shook the area, further unsettling residents who ran out on the streets when the initial strong quake struck.

    Television pictures showed rooms shaking and furniture falling to the ground as people ran from one building.

    Dozens of emergency workers and locals crawled over a multistory building in Van as they searched for any people trapped in side.

    Elsewhere, vehicles lay crushed by falling masonry in the street while dazed-looking people wandered past.

    Some 50 injured people had been taken to hospital in Van, state-run Anatolian news agency reported, but it did not give details on how serious their injuries were.

    Huge earthquake hits southeast Turkey

    The Kandilli Observatory, which initially cited a 6.6-magnitude quake, said the earthquake was 5 km deep. It struck at 10:41 am GMT (6:41 pm Beijing time) and was 5 km deep. The US Geological Survey earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6.

    Turkish media said phone lines and electricity had been cut off. The quake's epicenter was in the village of Tabanli, 20 km north of Van city, Kandilli said.

    In Hakkari, about 100 km south of Van, a building could be felt swaying for about 10 seconds during the quake but there was no immediate sign of casualties or damage in the town, about two and a half hours drive through the mountains from Van.

    Israel offered aid immediately after the earthquake.

    Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel was willing to provide "anything from food, medicine, medical staff and equipment and search-and-rescue teams". He said Israel was awaiting Ankara's reply.

    Relations between Israel and Turkey have been frayed since Israeli commandoes killed nine Turks during a raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip in 2010.

    Major geological fault lines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in northwest Turkey.

    Two people were killed and 79 injured in May when an earthquake shook Simav.

    AFP contributed to this story.

    Reuters  

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