Turkish rescuers pulled a three-year-old girl out alive from a collapsed building in western Turkey, in what's being described as a "miracle" in the 91st hour.

The toddler, identified as Ayda Gezgin by Turkey's health minister, was trapped inside the rubble for 91 hours after the deadly quake struck Turkey and Greece in the Aegean Sea on Friday.

Rescue workers held back tears as they recalled the emotional moment Gezgin was pulled safely out of the debris to the cries and applause of exhausted emergency workers and shouts of "Allahu Akbar," or "God is greater."

"At the 91st hour [after the quake], we reached baby Ayda. The joy we felt in that moment was indescribable," recounted Ibrahim Topal, a member of the IHH rescue team, who pulled her to safety.

"With my friend Ahmet Celik we first heard a very weak sound. We checked with each other and confirmed we were hearing a voice, so we made the whole area silent to be able to hear. And we could hear a voice, very weak, but a voice," he added.

Rescuers added that Gezgin was found in a gap between kitchen appliances and remained calm and identified herself as she clung on to her rescuer's hand. They added that she immediately asked for water and ayran, a salty drink made from yoghurt, before she was taken away on a stretcher to be treated in hospital.

Izmir mayor Tunc Soyer tweeted: "Along with the great pain we have experienced, we have this joy as well."

The death toll from the 7.0 magnitude quake rose to 102 in Turkey on Tuesday, the country's disaster authority AFAD reported. More than 1,000 people were injured, of whom roughly 143 remain in hospital. The quake was felt from Istanbul to Athens.

Two teenagers on their way home from school were also killed and 19 people injured on the Greek island of Samos, near the earthquake's epicenter in the Aegean Sea.

Gezgin's miraculous rescue came only one day after another three-year-old and a 14-year-old were found alive in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Izmir, giving tired emergency workers hope that more people could still be rescued.

Elif Perincek, three, had been trapped under the rubble for 65 hours when firefighters found her. They assumed she was dead. Firefighter Muammer Celik found the little girl lying motionless, covered in dust, and he asked a colleague for a body bag. But as Celik extended his arm to wipe her face, the child opened her eyes and grabbed hold of his thumb.  

Perincek spent nearly three full days in the wreckage of her apartment and became the 106th person to be pulled alive from the rubble.

Her mother and two sisters – 10-year-old twins – were rescued two days earlier, but her six-year-old brother did not survive.

The family of Idil Sirin, 14, who was removed from the rubble after being trapped for 58 hours, also had short-lived joy as Idil's eight-year-old sister, Ipek Sirin, did not survive.

Turkey has reported more than 1,475 aftershocks following the quake, including 44 that were above magnitude 4.

None of the Turkish coastal towns was hit harder than Bayrakli, a residential district dotted with seven- and eight–floor apartment buildings, dozens of which were either damaged or completely destroyed.

Rescuers, exhausted but determined on their fourth day of round-the-clock work, were on Tuesday zeroing in on four buildings, supported by drones surveying the scene.

With dozens of buildings damaged and the risk of repeated tremors, thousands of residents were forced to spend a fourth night in tents in Izmir. Rescuers and families have been riding waves of emotion, from profound grief to elated relief, depending on whether bodies or survivors were extracted from leveled buildings.

The quake is the deadliest in Turkey this year after more than 40 people were killed in the eastern provinces of Elazig and Malatya in January.

Cover photo: Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD)/AFP

Video editor: Nuri Moseinco