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Omaha Steve

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Sun Nov 1, 2020, 11:23 AM Nov 2020

70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 64

Source: AP

By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

IZMIR, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 64 people and injuring more than 900.

It was the latest series of remarkable rescues after the Friday afternoon earthquake, which was centered in the Aegean northeast of the Greek island of Samos. Search-and-rescue teams were working in nine toppled or damaged buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, but appeared to be finding more bodies Sunday than survivors.

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) raised the death toll Sunday in Izmir to 62. Two teenagers were killed Friday on Samos and at least 19 others were injured.

There was some debate over the magnitude of the earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey rated it 7.0, while the Istanbul’s Kandilli Institute put it at 6.9 and AFAD said it measured 6.6.



Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca speaks with Ahmet Citim, rescued from the debris of his collapsed house, in Izmir, Turkey, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. In the latest of series of remarkable rescues after the Friday afternoon earthquake, rescue workers extricated the 70-year-old man from the collapsed building earlier on Sunday, some 34 hours after the strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others(Turkey Health Ministry via AP)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-turkey-istanbul-aegean-sea-earthquakes-071277825717908a98a26e84797255d9

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70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 64 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2020 OP
he's lucky. AllaN01Bear Nov 2020 #1
There was a pretty large earthquake in Turkey while I was stationed there MineralMan Nov 2020 #2

MineralMan

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2. There was a pretty large earthquake in Turkey while I was stationed there
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 01:14 PM
Nov 2020

while in the USAF. That was in 1967 or 68. Many buildings collapsed, due to poor construction. Not just old buildings, either. Construction standards were not enforced, apparently.

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