Just released a video showing raw footage of the Earthquake that hit Van,Turkey today,showing the evacuation and rescue of the wounded.Death Toll Stands at 85 for the moment.(October 23rd,2011)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-10-23/turkey-earthquake/50880238/1
A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing at
least 85 people and sparking widespread panic as it collapsed dozens of
buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete.
Tens of thousands of residents fled into the streets running, screaming and trying to reach relatives on cellphones. As the full extent of the damage became clear, desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and the injured.Turkey's state-run television TRTsaid a group of inmates escaped from a prison after the earthquake struck. It gave no other detail and it was not immediately known how many had fled.
"My wife and child are inside! My 4-month-old baby is inside!" CNN-Turk
television showed one young man sobbing outside a collapsed building in Van, the provincial capital.TRT television reported that 59 people were killed and 150 injured in the eastern town of Ercis, 25 others died in Van and a child died in the nearby province of Bitlis.Turkish scientists estimated that up to 1,000 people could already be dead, basing the calculation on low local housing standards and the size of the quake.The hardest hit was Ercis, a city of 75,000 close to the Iranian border, which lies on the Ercis Fault in one of Turkey's most earthquake-prone zones. Van, about 55 miles to the south, also sustained substantial damage.Up to 80 buildings collapsed in Ercis,including a dormitory, and 10 buildings collapsed in Van, the Turkish Red Crescent said. Some highways also caved in, CNN-Turk television reported.
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