Moderate quake shakes Southeast Turkey

According to the Associated Press, the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9, was centered near the town Karliova, 560 miles southeast of the capital, Ankara, the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory said. It struck at 10:39 p.m.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey which lies on active fault lines. Two devastating earthquakes in 1999 killed some 18,000 people.

In 2003, an earthquake measuring 6.4 collapsed a school dormitory in Bingol province, killing 83 children. The collapse was blamed on poor construction.

A magnitude-6.4 quake killed 177 people in Bingol in 1995.

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