Yes. Thousands killed. I can’t remember how many either.
Husband was camping on a riverside. He said the land
just looked like a huge giant was rolling over underground;
the trees going in all different directions. Was worried
sick; communications were delayed.
It was in the middle of the night. 7.+ magnitude.
We had been experiencing many break-ins in the neighborhood, and I was awakened by the rattling of the doors and windows. I thought it was a burglar trying to get in.
Shook hubbie to wake up....and I’m saying, “Shoosh! Shoosh!’, for him to be quiet, and then the portable clothes rack, flew across the floor; when I finally realized what it could be, the word *earthquake* was caught in my throat; no words came out.
We were warned to stand in a doorway in an earthquake; we ran out of the house pell-mell, and ALL the Turkish neighbors were jumping in their cars driving as far away from buildings that they could get, into the countryside. And they never came home that night, except the next day. We were left, shaking our heads; it was eerie. Such an experience.
Some long time later, we were having a cook-out with our CO , talking about earthquakes, of all things, and the ground began to ripple; like waves on an ocean; never saw anything like that since. Was glad to leave that kind of event behind. :)