Two little girls have made it out alive after an apartment building in the Turkish city of Izmir collapsed due to a colossal earthquake.

Felt throughout Turkey and Greece, U.S. Geological Survey rated it 7.0, while Istanbul’s Kandilli Institute put it at 6.9 and Turkey’s emergency management agency said it measured 6.6.

The overall death toll in Friday’s quake reached 85 after teams found more bodies overnight amid toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city.

Onlookers applauded in relief as the two young girls were pulled from wreckage and debris before they were rushed off to hospital.

They are two out of over 1,000 people who were injured in the quake that was felt mostly in Turkey,

Rescue workers clapped in unison Monday as 14-year-old Idil Sirin was removed from the rubble.

She was trapped for 58 hours.

Her 8-year-old sister, Ipek, did not survive.

Rescuers also found 3-year-old Elif Perincek seven hours after Sirin.

She spent 65 hours in the wreckage of her apartment before she was extracted.

Eli’s mother and two sisters had been rescued two days earlier.

Muammer Celik of Istanbul’s search-and-rescue team told NTV television that he thought Elif was dead when he found the young child.

“There was dust on her face, her face was white,” he said.

“When I cleaned the dust from her face, she opened her eyes. I was astonished.”

Celik said: “it was a miracle, it was a true miracle.”

The girl would not let go of his hand throughout the rescue operation.

Celik added: “I am now her big brother.”