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While rescue and search operations were being carried out, with a nine-hour difference, a second 7.6 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale and a series of aftershocks shook the already devastated southeast Turkey. The epicenter of this new tremor was in Elbistan, in the province of Kahramanmaras, about 80 kilometers north of the first.\u00a0Rescue operations were complicated by aftershocks from the earthquake, as more than twenty were detected since the first major jolt occurred early in the morning.<\/p>\n
For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has mourned that his country is experiencing “the greatest tragedy” since the great earthquake of Erzincan in 1939, which left 30,000 dead.<\/p>\n
Turkey’s earthquake is already the deadliest in the region in more than a century with more than 35,000 dead. Turkish authorities issue more than 113 arrest warrants for negligent construction.<\/p>\n
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