CNN
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Hundreds of individuals in Turkey and Syria have been killed and 1000’s extra had been injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey’s Gaziantep province close to the Syrian border early Monday.
The earthquake is the strongest to hit Turkey since 1939, when a quake of the identical magnitude killed 300,000 individuals. The preliminary earthquake was adopted by a magnitude 6.7 aftershock 11 minutes later, in addition to a 7.5 aftershock a number of hours later, in response to the US Geological Survey. Tremors have been felt throughout the area, together with in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Jordan.