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Quake hits Turkish Van city again

Türkiye Materials 3 March 2012 09:58 (UTC +04:00)
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted the Turkish Van city on Saturday, the Sabah newspaper reported.
Quake hits Turkish Van city again

Azerbaijan, Baku, March 3 / Trend A.Taghiyeva /

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted the Turkish Van city on Saturday, the Sabah newspaper reported.

Victims and damages as a result of the earthquake have not been reported yet.
An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale jolted Van province on Oct.23 killing more than 600 people. Later earthquakes measuring 5.1 and 6.1 took place. Over 4,000 people were injured. About 2,262 buildings were destroyed.

Turkey is located in a seismically active zone. The most powerful vibrations of the earth's crust in this country occurred in the Marmara Sea in 1999. The magnitude of the tremors was 7.4. About 18,000 people killed in the earthquake.

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