Breaking news: Officials said the massive earthquake in southern Turkey has killed more than 200 people across the country and in neighboring Syria, adding that numbers were likely to rise as rescuers searched flattened buildings.
ISTANBUL — A powerful earthquake in southern Turkey early Monday leveled residential buildings and killed hundreds across the country and in neighboring Syria, officials said.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake — felt as far away as Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Egypt — occurred in Nurdagi, about 40 miles west of the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The initial quake was followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks.The earthquake struck at 4:17 a.m. local time, with the epicenter in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province, north of Gaziantep. Most of the damage is in southern Turkey and northern Syria.
The quake could be the largest recorded in the region, which sits on an earthquake-prone belt known as the Anatolia fault, one seismologist said.The earthquake struck at 4:17 a.m. local time, with the epicenter in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province, north of Gaziantep. Most of the damage is in southern Turkey and northern Syria.
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