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An earthquake in Turkey killed at least 10,000 and possibly as many as 35,000.
The Los Angeles Times , which fronts the story, leads with the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that shook the Mojave Desert at 2:46 a.m.
400); the city of King Priam, described in the Iliad and the Odyssey, is thought to be either Troy VI, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275 b.c. , or its successor Troy VIIa.
Despite the region’s ancient roots, few historic monuments survive from before 1755, when the Algarve was rocked by a monumental earthquake that took thousands of lives and leveled buildings as far north as Lisbon.
The first palatial structures at Knossós, and other great cities such as Phaistós and Mália, were erected around 2000 b.c., but these were destroyed by an earthquake 300 years later.