A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing buildings, bringing down telephone and electricity lines, and killing scores of people. Hardest hit was the town of Ercis, where at least 59 people were killed and 150 injured, according to local media reports.  But officials at Turkey’s Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute feared as many as 1,000 may have died in the mountaneous region near the border of Iran. Click here for more details.