View Izmit Earthquake Izmir Turkey Earthquake Pictures. Turkey put the magnitude lower, at 6.6, saying 20. Rescue efforts continued apace in the western turkish city of izmir on saturday, a day after a powerful earthquake hit the aegean sea, causing buildings to come crashing down and claiming the lives of at least 39 people.
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The magnitude 7.0 quake reportedly caused several buildings to collapse in turkey's izmir. Rescue teams dug through rubble with bare hands on saturday to locate survivors. Closest cities around izmir with a population over 100,000.
Turkey put the magnitude lower, at 6.6, saying 20 people had died and 786 were injured in the province of izmir.
On samos, two teenagers were killed. Rescue workers who were trying to reach survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in izmir, turkey, on sunday leave the area as the adjacent building at the right started moving. Rescue teams dug through rubble with bare hands on saturday to locate survivors. The quake, centered in the aegean, killed at least 24 people in turkey and two in greece.
