Photo Essay: A Deadly Earthquake in Turkey

Tuesday, Aug. 17, 1999
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The numbers were all big, and all bad, and if this wasn't the big one, it was close enough. The earthquake that hit western Turkey Tuesday morning at 3 a.m. local time weighed in at a heavy 7.8 on the Richter scale, a number that placed it in the neighborhood of the big (7.9 magnitude) San Francisco quake of 1906. More than 10,000 people are dead, a number that is still going up.

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