<p><strong>The village of Okcular lies in shambles on March 8, 2010, hours after an <a id="kq47" title="earthquake" href="http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/natural-disasters/earthquake-profile.html?nav=A-Z">earthquake</a> in <a id="ofdx" title="Turkey" href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/turkey-guide/">Turkey</a> shook a remotely populated area of the country, killing at least 51. </strong><br><br>The magnitude 5.9 temblor hit Elazig Province (see <a id="jdtm" title="map." href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&amp;c=38.65119833229951, 38.73779296875&amp;z=5">map</a>) in the predawn hours, destroying stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, according to the Associated Press.<br><br>Though the Turkey earthquake closely follows deadly temblors in Haiti (see <a id="b53_" title="pictures" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/photogalleries/100113-haiti-earthquake-pictures/">Haiti earthquake pictures</a>) and Chile (see <a id="biad" title="pictures" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/photogalleries/100227-chile-earthquake-2010-hawaii-tsunami-warning-pictures/">Chile earthquake pictures</a>), the three seismic events are too distant geographically to be related, seismologist Bernard Doft, of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in Utrecht, told AP.</p>