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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Twitter exalted him as ‘predicting’ the Turkey earthquake – here’s what the experts say

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Two days before the deadliest earthquake to rock the globe in more than a decade, an ‘expert’ warned that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake would hit the very area it eventually struck.

In the early hours of Monday morning, Turkey and Syria were decimated by a 7.8-magnitude quake. The tremor reduced hundreds of miles of infrastructure to rubble, from underneath which almost 16,000 had been pulled by Thursday morning.

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