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Powerful earthquake shakes eastern Turkey
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1.       tunci
7149 posts
 23 Oct 2011 Sun 02:59 pm

 

Powerful earthquake shakes eastern Turkey

2.       alameda
3499 posts
 23 Oct 2011 Sun 06:02 pm

I pray our dear brothers and sisters are well and pray for the souls of the departed. We, in CA have been having a series of small earthquakes (4. in the last few days, and are concerned about having larger ones. 

Quoting tunci

 

Powerful earthquake shakes eastern Turkey

 

 

3.       Abla
3648 posts
 23 Oct 2011 Sun 06:14 pm

Number of victims may rise up to one thousand. Turkey has gone through some hard times recently. Wish you patience.

4.       si++
3785 posts
 23 Oct 2011 Sun 07:47 pm

 

Quoting Abla

Number of victims may rise up to one thousand. Turkey has gone through some hard times recently. Wish you patience.

 

In 70´s, the same region saw another 7.5 quake and ~4000 died.

5.       tunci
7149 posts
 23 Oct 2011 Sun 11:16 pm

 

Up to 1,000 people were feared dead today after a powerful earthquake hit Turkey.

The 7.2-magnitude tremor devastated parts of Van province in the east of the country, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete.

Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and injured.

The worst hit was Ercis, a town of 75,000 close to the Iranian border in one of Turkey´s most earthquake-prone zones. Twenty-five to 30 buildings collapsed including a dormitory


Trapped: A female victim buried under falling masonry is helped by two rescuers in Van province where 10 buildings collapsedDevastation: Rescuers try to save victims trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after the powerful earthquake struck

 

TURKEY Earthquake

At least 85 have been killed and 150 injured, but scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could be dead, due to low housing standards in the area and the size of the quake.  

An eight-storey building with shops underneath was flattened. Residents sobbed outside the ruins, hoping that missing relatives would be rescued.

CNN-Turk television showed one young man crying: ´My wife and child are inside! My 4-month-old baby is inside!´

Witnesses said eight people were rescued from the rubble, but frequent aftershocks were hampering search efforts.     

´There are so many dead, but we don´t know the number,´ town mayor Zulfukar Arapoglu told NTV

Crying: A stunned woman weeps as she is led away from a collapsed building in Van. Up to 1,000 people are thought to have lost their lives



Terrified: A bandaged little girl is carried to safety from the collapsed buildings in Van in the southeast of TurkeySafe but shocked: A young woman falls to her knees in the city centre of Van

Safe but shocked: A young woman falls to her knees in the city centre of Van



We are waiting for emergency help, it´s very urgent. 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.´

The Turkish Red Crescent reported its rescuers pulled several injured people out of a collapsed dormitory in the town, which sits on a geological fault line.

Camps were being set up to shelter people and blankets, food and water were being sent along with mobile kitchens. Military aircraft were helping with the rescue and relief efforts.

Emergency teams were trying to rescue people believed to be trapped in a building in Van, a bustling city with many apartment buildings near the Iranian border, state-run news agency Anatolian said

 

Residents ran onto the streets in panic as 50 wounded were taken to the hospital there, but it was not known how serious their injuries were. They were treated in the courtyard of the hospital, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.



The Kandilli Observatory, Turkey´s main seismography centre, said the earthquake struck at 1041 GMT and was 5km deep. The U.S. Geological Survey earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6.

Eight aftershocks were recorded within three hours of the initial quake, including two with a magnitude of 5.6.

Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli observatory said: ´We are estimating a death toll between 500 and 1,000.´

´There are many people under the rubble,´ Veysel Keser, mayor of Celebibag, told NTV. ´People are in agony, we can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help."

´It´s a great disaster. Many buildings have collapsed, student dormitories, hotels and gas stations have collapsed.´

Some houses also collapsed in the province of Bitlis, where at least one person, an eight-year-old girl was killed, authorities said. The quake also toppled the minarets of two mosques in the nearby province of Mus.

Television pictures showed damaged buildings and vehicles, crushed under falling masonry, and shocked residents wandering in the streets.

Race against time: rescue efforts continue into the night to save people still trapped under debris

Race against time: Rescue efforts continue into the night to save people still trapped under debris

 

Turkish media said phone lines and electricity had been cut off. Aftershocks continued after the initial quake, whose epicentre was at the village of Tabanli, north of Van city.

In Hakkari, a town around 100 km (60 miles) south of the city of Van in southeastern Turkey, a building could be felt swaying for around 10 seconds during the quake. There was no immediate sign of any casualties.

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 in northwest Turkey.

The quake also caused panic among residents in several Iranian towns, close to the Turkish border, and caused cracks in some buildings in Chaldoran and cut telephone links, said the Iranian state TV website.

The quake was also felt in Salmas, Maku, Khoi and



Note : It´s hard to find words at times like this, May God help those people and RIP those who lost their lives..

 

 

6.       lemon
1374 posts
 24 Oct 2011 Mon 08:04 am

I feel sorry. watched on tv. quite a strong one.{#emotions_dlg.sad}

7.       tunci
7149 posts
 24 Oct 2011 Mon 11:52 am

 

World reacts to earthquake in eastern Turkey

 

Rescuers take part in an operation to salvage people from a collapsed building after an earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed at least 217 people. AFP Photo.

Many countries from all over the world offered help and condolences to Turkey after an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit the eastern province of Van on Sunday.

At least 217 people were killed and 700 others were wounded, while 970 buildings were demolished in the earthquake.

The United States, Britain, Greece, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Israel, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Georgia, China, Ukraine, Russia, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Iran, Kosovo, the EU, NATO and the U.N. offered to help Turkey after the earthquake.

"We stand shoulder to shoulder with our Turkish ally in this difficult time and are ready to assist the Turkish authorities," U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement. "On behalf of the American people, I express my deepest condolences to the families of the victims. Our thoughts and prayers are with the brave men and women who are working to bring assistance to this stricken region."

Presidents of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Azerbaijan, the U.S., France, Israel, Serbia and Iraq; Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC); President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy; European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, the U.S. and Ireland called Turkish officials and offered help and condolences.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also released a statement showing support in the wake of the disaster, stating: ""NATO stands ready to assist our ally Turkey, if needed."

Note : Very first country that offered help was Azerbaijan and they did, I know its very near Azerbaijan to Turkey and second one was  Israel, and their aid offer was sort of rejected by Turkish authoroties as I heard. Whether Israel sincere or not about helping, it was quick responce to this tragic event. I was expecting same quick responce from other Islamic countries.. At the end of the day Turkey is quite capable to handle with situation itself..But still we want to see our brothers and friends with us...
At times like this we all should put the politics aside ..The nationality ,race  or religions are not important at times like this. Humanity comes first..The value of human life is above all..

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8.       tunci
7149 posts
 24 Oct 2011 Mon 06:14 pm

 

 VAN´DAKİ DEPREMZELER İÇİN SMS YOLUYLA BAĞIŞ

 [Türk Kızılay´ının resmi web sitesinden]

http://secure.kizilay.org.tr/sayfaDetay.aspx?sid=27ad92e8-085f-44c8-bf42-149a5039c04b

SMS Bağışı [Donation to victims of Van Earthquake through SMS ]

Tüm operatörlerden 2868´ e boş bir mesaj (SMS) göndererek insanlığa 5 TL lik destekte bulunabilirsiniz

[ If you want to help people in Van ,You can send an empy text message to 2868 through all mobile providers [Turkcell,Vodaphone, Avea...] [ You will be charged 5 TL as donation ]

[ This money will go to Turkish Red Cross and it will be delivered to victims of Earthquake]

 

                   

 

Note : As we are sleeping in our warm beds with full stomach people in Van are fighting to survive under tons of concrete blocks, and some of them not having a bread to eat and sleeping outisde by wrapping themselves with blankets.. 

 

 5 TL kaybetmekle fakirleşmeyiz , bir gun sigara içmeyiz olur biter..

 Giving away 5 TL doesnt make us poor..



Edited (10/24/2011) by tunci

9.       deli
5904 posts
 24 Oct 2011 Mon 08:16 pm

done, lets hope everyone does the same ,money wont bring back loved ones but it may give these desperate people some comfort to know we are here for them 

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10.       tunci
7149 posts
 25 Oct 2011 Tue 09:54 am

 

Van still hoping to rescue quake victims

Vercihan Ziflioğlu

 

10-year-old boy named Yunus who was caught in the earthquake at an Internet cafe in Van was rescued from the ruins after almost 24 hours. REUTERS photo

10-year-old boy named Yunus who was caught in the earthquake at an Internet cafe in Van was rescued from the ruins after almost 24 hours. REUTERS photo

In the heart of the earthquake zone in Erciş, a district of Van province rocked by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Sunday, people are working together with rescue teams to dig out their loved ones from under the rubble.

İmdat Padak, 24, was among a crowd of men yesterday who was holding his mobile phone while staring at the ruins of a building. Three people from his family were buried underneath.

“I am calling them and their phones are ringing. I know they must be somewhere here,” Padak told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Erciş, a town of almost 75,000 people, now seems like a dead zone. Crowds of people are running from one place to another trying to get aid, find their relatives or help others. Zilan Street, the town’s most famous, lost all of its buildings in the quake. Dozens of people have been climbing on top of the ruins.

“They are still sending me text messages,” Ahmet Karayel said about his relatives who are buried under mounds of concrete. “They asked for water. I know they are still alive but I just do not know where exactly.”

Emergency aid teams have worked nonstop since Sunday to rescue the victims. Among the rescued is a 10-year-old boy named Yunus who was caught in the earthquake in an Internet cafe and was rescued from the ruins after almost 24 hours. Yalçın Akay, who was also rescued, was reported to have called the emergency line 155 and told them his address. Akay was rescued from a six-story building and his condition was last reported as stable.

Still, some say that the search and rescue work has been inefficient.

“The rescue teams are digging a hole, shouting for people under the rubble and trying to hear a voice. We need to have a more developed system,” said 35-year-old Resul Yılmaz. “They are working but the methods are not enough.”

 

Note : May God help ones that are still under the ruins waiting to be saved...Folks pray for them please..

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