Right after building in Turkey was ruined, after 7.2-magnitude earthquake panic and horror filled in the air. Peoples was trying to call their realities by cellphone. At least 88 people was killing. People who survived was trying to rescue tapped and injured by shovels or even hands. Ercis, an eastern city of 75,000 close to the Iranian border was in worst condition. Van's city airport and highway also were damage. TRT television report that 59 people were killed and 150 injured in Erics. Other 25 died in Van and three people and child died in the nearby province of Bitlis. Also, at least nine people were pulled out of the debris alive. 80 building were collapsed in Ercis and 10 buildings in Van, the Turkish Red Crescent said. Government advised people stay away form collapsed houses, because they can collapse again in aftershocks. More then 100 aftershocks were recorded in eastern Turkey. Citizens from Erics and Van prepared themselves to spend night on the street and lit the campfires, while Red Crescent began setting up tents in a stadium. Ercis, heavy machinery stopped working, so people were ordered to be quiet, while rescue team tried to listen for possible survivors in collapsed buildings. "Some inmates escaped a prison in Van after one of its walls collapsed." The legislator from Van, Nazumi Gur was on funeral ceremony of his nephew’s then earthquake started, so he rushed back to help. Right now they do not have electricity and heating, so everyone who outside in the cold. Right now, government do not have any information about small villages. "The earthquake also shook buildings in neighbouring Armenia and Iran." Such earthquake it is not first in Turkey, because it respond on most active seismic zones. "In 1999, two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 7.0 struck northwestern Turkey, killing about 18,000 people." Thanks "Toronto Star" for information.
This even shocked not only Turkey and it's neighbours, but also the rest countries of the world. It is hard to imagine that chaos in Turkey right now. People need help and I hope government will give it. I also hope that other, more developed countries will give a hand to Turkey in this hard times. It is not first big earthquake in this year. I remembered disaster in Japan then after tsunami and earthquake the atomic station was damaged and radiation expelled throughout country. I hope disaster in Turkey would not so strong.
10/23/2011
Ilya Zaretskiy.
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