Turkey earthquake kills 114 with no survivors wanted | the Chronicle

The number of victims for him earthquake arrived last Friday in the Western Turkey has totaled 114 dead, while a five days after the incident, rescuers stopped looking for possible survivorsofficial sources reported on Wednesday.

the earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Ritcher scale (whose maximum is 9), left at least 1,035 people injured, of which 137 are still hospitalized, AFP reported according to data from the Turkish government authority for disaster situations (Afad).

In addition, lifeguards ended the search for possible survivors or victims, then the authorities began to clear the rubble, Afad said.

The the most affected city was Bayrakli, in Izmir province, where a three-year-old girl was rescued Tuesday after spending 91 hours under the rubble.

Dozens of the buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged by earthquake that left more than 5,000 people homeless, and now found in tents set up in makeshift camps in Izmir province.

In the zone recorded some 1,855 aftershocks of the earthquake, 46 of a magnitude greater than 4, according to the Turkish authorities, who also specified that the earthquake had caused the death of two people on the Greek island of Samos.

Turkey is regularly shaken by earthquakes and in 1999 one of magnitude 7.4 struck the north-west of the country, killing more than 17,000, including 1,000 in Istanbul.