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• Live Updates | Over 600 dead, many trapped under rubble as 7.9 magnitude quake rocks Turkey and Syria

USGS reported a series of further earthquakes following the initial tremor, which it put at a magnitude of 7.8. There was a quake measuring 6.7 in Gaziantep and another of 5.6 in the city's Nurdag area.

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