Quake Rocks Southeast Turkey

World | March 12, 2005, Saturday // 00:00

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 shook southeastern Turkey on Saturday, injuring 15 people and triggering off an avalanche, which blocked one of two lanes of the main highway between the city of Erzurum and the town of Cat. Some 150 houses were also reported damaged in the earth shatter truck around 9:36 a.m. local time and was centered in the town of Karliova in rural Bingol province. In the same area, in 2003 a quake of 6.4-magnitude killed 177 people. The government dispatched tents, blankets and other relief aid to the snow covered area, where some villages were cut off from the outside world due to heavy snowfall for days.

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