5.2 magnitude earthquake hits Turkey

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[quote]ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A magnitude-5.2 quake early Tuesday shook eastern Turkey — already devastated by two powerful tremors, the Kandilli observatory said.
The latest quake hit Van province but there was no immediate report of damage or injuries, state-run Anatolia news agency said. Its epicenter was in the village of Mollakasim, the observatory said in a statement.
Previous quakes have turned Van, the provincial capital of half a million, into a virtual ghost town, Gov. Munir Karaloglu said Monday. He called for urgent relief aid for survivors.
Last month's magnitude-7.2 quake and a magnitude-5.7 quake last week flattened some 2,000 buildings, killed 644 people and left thousands homeless in the eastern province, where an unusually cold November is forcing survivors to endure even more suffering.
Very few state-owned buildings in the capital survived the quake, Karaloglu told the state-run Anatolia news agency. Many residents have fled because they fear going back into their homes even if they are not damaged.
"It is a ghost city," said Karaloglu. "Almost none of the buildings are in use."
Karaloglu called on the country to show "even more mercy" in the face of mounting needs, ranging from housing to food and warm clothing.
The remaining homeless were suffering through unseasonably frosty weather. The Anatolia agency cited weather officials as saying Monday that temperatures dipped as low as -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight in the town of Ercis, which was the worst hit by the first quake.
The HaberTurk newspaper reported that a 7-year-old handicapped girl who had been living in makeshift tent died of pneumonia in Ercis on Sunday. Her father claimed that he could not obtain a proper tent from authorities, the newspaper report.
Several countries, including the United States and Israel, have sent in tents and prefabricated homes.[/quote]

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This occurs almost a month after the 7.1 magnitude "Van" earthquake that killed over 600 people hit Turkey. Talk about bad luck.

[MacD11]

Damn, so many earthquakes this year.

i feel for all the victims in this earthquake.

[Derposaurus]

[h2]THE EARTH IS ANGERED[/h2]

Seriously, how many earthquakes have happened in the last few months?

[Miskav]

Again what the fuck?

[OvB]

[QUOTE=Derposaurus;33280525][h2]THE EARTH IS ANGERED[/h2]

Seriously, how many earthquakes have happened in the last few months?[/QUOTE]

[url]http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/[/url]

[HawkeyeTy]

Well, atleast the deaths and injuries didn't skyrocket---

[quote=Yahoo! News]The HaberTurk newspaper reported that a 7-year-old handicapped girl who had been living in makeshift tent died of pneumonia in Ercis on Sunday. Her father claimed that he could not obtain a proper tent from authorities, the newspaper report.[/quote]

:C

[RIPBILLYMAYS]

I love how coincidental it is that the movie 2012 predicted obscure earthquakes and now we're getting them :v:

[HawkeyeTy]

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;33280581]I love how coincidental it is that the movie 2012 predicted obscure earthquakes and now we're getting them :v:[/QUOTE]
That's like saying "I can't believe the weatherman was right about there being a sky today."

[HoloRaptor]

[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;33280603]That's like saying "I can't believe the weatherman was right about there being a sky today."[/QUOTE]

Exactly. Earthquakes happen ALL THE TIME.

[OvB]

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;33280581]I love how coincidental it is that the movie 2012 predicted obscure earthquakes and now we're getting them :v:[/QUOTE]

Except there is nothing obscure and earthquakes happen literally all the time. We live on a sheet of rock floating on lava with other sheets of rock. Earthquakes happen [i]all the time[/i]. It's just a byproduct of living on a sheet of rock floating on lava.

[editline]14th November 2011[/editline]

Should I repeat myself one more time?

[Fetret]

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;33280581]I love how coincidental it is that the movie 2012 predicted obscure earthquakes and now we're getting them :v:[/QUOTE]

What do you mean by "obscure" earthquakes? The city lies almost directly on top of a fault line, there is nothing obscure about that.

[gonedead0]

5.2 is nothing, move along.

[Minilandstan]

Now we wait for the San Andreas fault.

[Bubz]

Thanksgivings coming up, you know somebody up in those skys wants some good ol' turkey.

[lapsus_]

Take care, turkish people..

[Crimor]

Something is fowl about all these earthquakes.

[Contag]

[QUOTE=Crimor;33284212]Something is fowl about all these earthquakes.[/QUOTE]

The animals are called turkey because that's where Europe imported their turkeys from

[T2L_Goose]

[QUOTE=OvB;33280717]Except there is nothing obscure and earthquakes happen literally all the time. We live on a sheet of rock floating on lava with other sheets of rock. Earthquakes happen [i]all the time[/i]. It's just a byproduct of living on a sheet of rock floating on lava.

[editline]14th November 2011[/editline]

Should I repeat myself one more time?[/QUOTE]

Um actually it's magma, not lava....................................................

[Contag]

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;33284262]Um actually it's magma, not lava....................................................[/QUOTE]

You're criticizing his lack of proper terminology when he boiled down the plate tectonics to "a sheet of rock floating on lava with other sheets of rock"?

I don't think it's really necessary when it's obviously immensely simplified