Ercis, Turkey – In Photos: Aftermath Of Turkey Earthquake

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    Rescue workers carry Hilal Altinkaplan (16), a survivor from a collapsed building, on a stretcher after a powerful earthquake rocked eastern Turkey, in the city of Ercis, Van province, Turkey, 24 October 2011. More than 1,000 people were likely to have been killed in an earthquake as powerful as the one that struck 23 October in eastern Turkey, experts from the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute said at a press conference broadcast on Turkish TV. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was flying from Istanbul to the province of Van, the epicenter of the earthquake whose preliminary magnitude, according to the US Geological Survey, was 7.3.  EPA/TOLGA BOZOGLUErics, Turkey – Five people were pulled out alive Monday from the rubble in eastern Turkey after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and killed some 272 people. Four of them were rescued after one managed to call for help with his cell phone. Dozens of people were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and construction debris after hundreds of buildings in two cities and mud-brick homes in nearby villages pancaked or partially collapsed in Sunday’s earthquake.

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    The_Truth
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    The_Truth
    12 years ago

    Moshiach is getting closer – The Earthquakes are getting closer to Eretz Yisroel – its all clearly written in Tenach. We are in for a rough time ahead.

    abrahammo
    abrahammo
    12 years ago

    WHERE IS IT WRITTEN IN TANACH THAT EARTHQUAKES ARE A SIGN FOR MOSHIACH AND THERE WAS A BIG ONE IN TZVAS A FEW 100 YEARS AGO ALSO