TURKEY FEARS VOLCANO ERUPTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
October 24, 2011 – 11:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish seismologists fear that the earthquakes
that hit the province of Van on October 23 can cause eruption of
Nemrut volcano located northwards of Lake Van.

Mt. Nemrut is near Tatvan, a small town in the eastern Anatolian
province of Bitlis. The mountain rises from the southwestern shore
of Lake Van, and enters the district of Ahlat to the north.

At least 217 were killed and more than 1,000 people injured when a
powerful earthquake struck Turkey, collapsing dozens of buildings and
pulling down phone and power lines in the southeast of the country,
officials and witnesses said. More than 1,000 people are feared killed
in the earthquake.

Another magnitude 6.1 earthquake, which was the second to rock the
country in the past 24 hours, was registered about 20 km (12 miles)
from the city of Van at the depth of some 10 km (6.2 miles).