Turkey Struck by Another Quake

Second major earthquake hits eastern Turkey - Europe - Al Jazeera English

Van, Turkey - Seven Ten people are dead after an earthquake hit eastern Turkey a few weeks after bigger quake hit the area, killed more than 600 people.  One of them, 32-year-old Atsushi Miyazaki, was a Japanese aid worker for Japan's Association for Aid and Relief died in a hospital after being dug out from the rubble of a hotel.

The quake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale. The last one was 7.2.

Twenty-five buildings, all but three empty were destroyed by the event. One of the buildings was a hospital and another a maternal hospital.

Al-Jazeera reports at least 2,000 buildings were demolished and 3,000 others were declared inhabitable by the earthquake that hit in October.

More than a thousand aftershocks hit the area after the October 23rd quake.

Here is video from RT.