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...residents of the Turkish city of Erzincan (pop. 150,000), death visited with savage abruptness at 7:20 p.m. last Friday. An earthquake that registered at least 6.2 on the Richter scale leveled 200 buildings, leaving more than 500 people dead -- the toll could climb well past 1,000 -- and at least 2,000 injured. "All of a sudden I saw the wall coming down and the city swinging like a cradle," said Ahmet Elden, whose wife and four children were trapped in their wrecked apartment. "I can still hear the cries of my son calling...
...temblor that convulsed eastern Turkey was the country's most powerful since a 1983 quake that snuffed out 1,330 lives. In less than a minute, it leveled a quarter of Erzincan's center and reverberated across two neighboring provinces. By morning, rescue officials had dispatched tents, blankets and heavy equipment to aid the frightened survivors. Many had spent the night outdoors in subzero cold rather than wager against the earth's caprice...
With the power of a one-megaton bomb, an earthquake shocked eastern Turkey last week, killing more than 100 people and injuring about 200. The quake centered in sparsely settled Tunceli and Erzincan provinces, 80 miles west of the Varto area, scene of a violent quake that killed 2,477 people last August. It was the second earthquake to sunder Turkey within five days; on July 22 about 100 people were killed and 300 injured in a series of shocks that struck 50 towns near Adapazari. Like previous Turkish quakes (see map), the latest disasters were located along the Anatolian...
...week, under orders from Ankara, state governors prepared for a rush of refugees. Most of the intended immigrants had been forced to get rid of their land, cattle and shelter; they would die unless allowed to get out. A high-ranking Turk said bitterly: "A few years ago the Erzincan earthquake caused the death of many thousands. It was Kismet and we bowed to it. This today is not Kismet. This is a premeditated disaster sent by the devil in human form...
...interviewed General Weygand in Syria—went to Egypt to see the defenses of Suez and to appraise King Farouk's loyalty to Britain—was caught by the great earthquake at far-away Erzincan on the Euphrates while he and Margaret Bourke-White were photo-reporting their way through Turkey...