we re talking breaking news out of turkey where a major earthquake has struck the southern part of the country. officials say the death toll has now risen to at least 17. the u.s. geological survey says the 7.8 magnitude quake was centered east of nadagi in gaziant. p province. officials say multiple buildings have collapsed not just in turkey but also in syria. an aftershock with a magnitude of 6.7 struck northwest of the initial quake about 11 minutes later. a local journalist tells cnn there were up to eight very strong aftershocks in under a minute. let s take you now to cnn s jomana karadsheh for the very latest. more details coming in, jomana? reporter: we are starting to get more and more information, leila, coming from different parts of the country. we heard from the turkish interior minister saying they are getting reports from many places. at least ten provinces across southeastern turkey have been impacted by this major 7.8 magnitude earthquake. according to the
Seconds. We stayed under the table until the shaking stopped. I said well be okay. Were starting to get the initial video and pictures. Obviously everybody is posting things. That were seeing from the effects of that tremor. What were seeing is an impressive fire. This is not from the yesterday. This is from now. This is from a im waiting to get the location. It maybe ridge crest, california. Where alex it is ridge crest. Confirmation. You might be looking at video that we sent in. Were working on cell phones and were pitch back. Its a very impressive explosion. What appears to be a house fire. I know yesterday authorities told us this were several, numerous loose and broken gas pipelines. Thats always a danger. Sure. We certainly saw out of the
restaurant and everyone was able to get out. We headed back to the neighborhood that we have been in earlier today. The neighborhood that was more affected by thursdays quake. A number of mobile homes and Trailer Homes there. A couple people sc
Again, we were on our way to a story. Hi, sir. Did you just feel that earthquake we had. Yes. A short time ago. Yeah. Tell us tell us where you were going and what kind of sensation it was for you. Oh, i was in my office down there. I felt a very strong shake. You fet a strong shake. Did you feel the earthquake yesterday. No, yesterday i was in a boat some he didnt feel it. You were on a boat yesterday. Yeah. So today, can you tell us kind of what kind of feeling was it and for you, did it feel like it went on for a long time . It was fairly long. Its like a swinging movement. And its kind of weird, but at first i thought its like, i was in a boat so i thought i was sea sick or something but it was
fairly strong. So you were on a boat yesterday. You already have some boat legs going on. So again, we are here in anaheim. Were on our way to another story, an officer involved shooting Down The Street on the 91 freeway when we stopped at this carls junior, a lot of people definitely feelin
Did you guys notice anybody from the theater leaving . To gate no. We were in view of the theater. Sir, what is your name . To get my name is robert. Tell me what you felt tonigh compared to yesterday morning . Did you feel it also yesterday . Yesterday morning i was lucky. I was at work and i hadnt noticed anything at all until m coworkers or did you feel that and i said feel what. She was like well, we felt this. I said no. And then as i can later my boss called and said hey, can you make sure that there is no leaks , no breaks. I was like sure, of course, bu honestly i didnt notice anything at all. Today it was the same thing. We are glad you are both okay. We thank you for taking some time to talk with us this evening. Have a nice weekend to you both. We want to welcome to you what would normally be the fox news at 11 at 10 00 p. M. We have been on for coverage. Here is the latest. We now have experienced a 7. 1 earthquake that hit at 8 16 p. M tonight that makes yesterdays quake a