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The two powerful earthquakes that shook southern Turkey and northern Syria last night and this morning and killed, according to updated data, nearly 1,600 people in both countries, were felt as far away as Greenland, the Danish Geological Survey announced today, AFP reported.

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"The two strong earthquakes in Turkey were clearly recorded by seismographs in Denmark and Greenland," seismologist Tine Larsen told AFP.

According to the US Geological Survey, the first earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in the middle of the night at 4:17 a.m. local time (1:17 a.m. GMT) in the city of Pazardzhak, in Kahramanmarash district, about 60 kilometers from the Syrian border.

The earthquake was at a depth of 17.9 kilometers, writes BTA.

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"The seismic waves reached the seismograph on the Danish island of Björnholm, in the Baltic Sea, about 5 minutes after the quake started," says Larsen.

"Eight minutes after the earthquake, the tremor reached the east coast of Greenland, it spread all over Greenland," said the expert. 

At the end of the morning, another strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 shook southeastern Turkey.

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"We registered two earthquakes and many aftershocks - in Denmark and Greenland," emphasized the seismologist.

The first of the two tremors was the strongest earthquake in Turkey since the earthquake of August 17, 1999, which killed 17,000 people, including a thousand in Istanbul, France Presse recalled.

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