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7.2 quake sends jolt across eastern Turkey

China Daily | Updated: 2011-10-24 11:06

 7.2 quake sends jolt across eastern Turkey

Rescue workers rescue people trapped under debris after an earthquake near the eastern Turkish city of Van on Sunday. Ali Ihsan Ozturk / Anadolu Agency Via Reuters

7.2 quake sends jolt across eastern Turkey

More than 500 search and rescue teams sent to province of epicenter

ANKARA - The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hitting southeast Turkey on Sunday has risen to 138, as rescuers were racing against time to search for survivors in the quake-hit zone.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is visiting the disaster area, said early Monday that 93 people were killed in Van city of Van province and an additional 45 died in Ercis town, also located in Van province.

Turkey's TRT television quoted Erdogan as saying that at least 350 people were injured in the quake, which struck Sunday afternoon, with its epicenter located in the village of Tabanli in Van province bordering Iran.

The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute originally reported the earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale, but later revised it up to 7.2.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said earlier that 25 to 30 buildings collapsed in the town of Ercis.

TV footage showed residents spilling out into the streets in a panic as rescue workers struggled to save people trapped under collapsed buildings.

"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed. There is so much destruction," Zulfikar Arapoglu, mayor of Ercis, told NTV television. "We need urgent aid, we need medics."

Turkish Red Crescent is sending tents, blankets and other aid materials to the quake-hit province despite ongoing aftershocks.

The prime ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate said in a statement that more than 500 search, rescue and health personnel have been sent to Van from nearly 40 provinces.

A total of 275 rescue teams from 38 Turkish provinces have reached Van province, Turkey's TRT television quoted the prime minister's office as saying.

More than 17 aftershocks, including one measuring 6.1, occurred on Sunday.

The Turkish earthquake observatory said the death toll from the quake could reach 1,000.

"The toll from this earthquake could be 500 to 1,000," said Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli center.

Erdik said any quake with a strength of 7.0 or more would cause serious damage to buildings in Turkey.

The quake was also felt in the neighboring Turkish provinces of Bitlis, Mus, Batman, Diyarbakir and Hakkari, as well as Iran's provinces of West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan.

Iran's state IRIB TV website said the earthquake caused damage to buildings in the Chaldran city of the border province of West Azerbaijan and cut off telephone communication in the city and its vicinity.

West Azerbaijan's governor general told the local Mhr news agency that two people were injured in Chaldran and the power lines were briefly affected.

Countries including Israel and Iran have offered aid to Turkey after the earthquake.

Israeli President Shimon Peres telephoned his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, on Sunday to offer help in the wake of the earthquake.

"At this difficult time, Israel is willing to provide any aid required anywhere in Turkey and at any time," Peres said, according to a statement released by his office.

Israeli defense forces' chief of staff also instructed the Homefront Command's experienced search and rescue unit to prepare aid and gear pending Ankara's agreement to accept the mission.

The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Mahmoud Mozaffar said Iran was ready to send rescue teams to the quake-hit province in Turkey, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Turkey, lying atop the North Anatolian fault, has been frequently plagued by earthquakes. On March 8, 2010, at least 38 people died and dozens of others were injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Elazig province in eastern Turkey.

On Aug 17, 1999, two powerful earthquakes, measuring 6.7 and 7.4 on the Richter scale, hit northwestern and western Turkey, killing about 18,000 people and affecting hundreds of thousands of others.

A major earthquake hit Van province in November 1976, with 5,291 confirmed dead. The province has a population of just over 1 million people.

Xinhua News Agency

(China Daily 10/24/2011 page1)

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