Survival of quake victims depends on many factors

May 17th, 2008 By STEPHANIE NANO, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are pulling out victims days after they were buried by a powerful earthquake.



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