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Feb 6 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Some serious earthquake happened in Turkey.. Looks like a lot of cities felt it. Too early to say how significant
Residents from a lot of cities, inc Niğde, Mersin, Adana and Diyarbakir report they felt a serious earthquake.
It's still early however we may be facing some serious earthquake in Turkey.
Acc to this journo based in Turkey, center of the earthquake is GAntep, could be as big as 7.8 richter scale.

If true, this could be serious.
Dozens of cities reporting it
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7.9 is a powerful quake.
Reports on collapsed buildings in Turkey following powerful quake..
this one from Malatya, SEast of Turkey.

This 7.9 scale is a bigger than the quake in 1999
Anatolian quake felt in Israel..

Most of Anatolia under sever winter weather conditions nowadays.. mostly under snow, cold or rains during this strong quake strikes around 4.17am local time
Mid, East and SEast of Anatolia felt the quake the hardest.

Residents from Lebanon, Syria and Israel report to have felt the quake.
Earthquake experts now state this seems to be the strongest quake since 1999 which killed around 17K people
Turkey's SEast city Şanlıurfa's Mayor Abidin Beyazgül: 16 buildings collapsed in the city
USGS: 7.8 scale
Quake on CCTV - Gaziantep city, Seast Turkey #DEPREMOLDU #deprem
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There are more than 130 buildings collapsed in Malatya, a single city in SEast Turkey

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Feb 7
24 hours since the earthquake hit Turkey, which killed thousands and injured tens of thousands... felt in a dozen cities and effected ~15-20 million people..
Turkish Pres Erdogan, famous for his micromanagement of things, has not made any appearance.

I don't think I ever saw this in previous calamities: Turkish foreign missions and Turkish government affiliated orgs in foreign countries asking for money for #TurkeyEarthquake
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Search and rescue efforts are not nearly enough for wide areas destroyed by multiple strong quakes in Turkey.
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A lot of tweets, messages and posts by residents plea for help, giving locations for people waiting to be rescued under rubbles #deprem #DEPREMOLDU #TurkeyEarthquake
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