Turkey earthquake

At least 59 people were killed in two countries after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit Turkey in more than 100 years sent tremors across the region, ...

The ramifications of this are broad and will impact this region for weeks, and months.” All our relevant units are on alert under the coordination of AFAD,” Erdogan wrote on Twitter. Search and rescue teams have been dispatched to the south of the country, Turkey’s interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, said. About 11 minutes after the main quake hit, the strongest aftershock of 6.7 magnitude hit about 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of the main quake’s epicenter. Let’s not keep the phones busy,” he said. Many of his neighbors had left their homes following the quake, he said. Karl Lang, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech University’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, told CNN the area hit by the quake Monday is prone to seismic activity. Earthquakes of this magnitude are rare, with fewer than five occurring each year on average, anywhere in the world. Nurdagi is located along the Turkey-Syria border, and the quake was felt in several countries across the region, including Syria and Lebanon. Monday’s quake is believed to be the strongest to hit Turkey since 1939, when an earthquake of the same magnitude killed 30,000 people, according to the USGS. The quake struck before daybreak on Monday, when residents were likely asleep and unprepared for the impact. Video from Turkey shared on social media showed dozens of collapsed buildings, while frightened residents huddled on the darkened streets amid the chaos.

A powerful earthquake struck southern Turkey before dawn on Monday, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others in collapsed apartment ...

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, killing scores of people and injuring hundreds as buildings ...

In 2011, a quake in the eastern city of Van killed more than 500. "The earthquake struck in a region that we feared. More than 17,000 people were killed in 1999 when a 7.6-magnitude quake struck Izmit, a city southeast of Istanbul. Geological Survey (USGS) reported a series of further earthquakes following the initial tremor, which it put at a magnitude of 7.8. "Everybody is sitting in their cars or trying to drive to open spaces away from buildings," Erdem said by telephone. "The situation is very tragic, tens of buildings have collapsed in the city of Salqin," a member of the White Helmets rescue organisation said in a video clip on Twitter, referring to a town about 5 km (3 miles) from the Turkish border.

Scores confirmed dead after 7.8 magnitude tremor hit early on Monday, causing widespread destruction and trapping people under rubble.

Our teams are on the highest levels of alert to respond and rescue those trapped,” A magnitude-6.8 quake hit Elazığ in January 2020, killing more than 40 people. “We hope to get through this together as soon as possible and with the least damage, and we continue our work,” he tweeted. Now we’re all dressed and standing at the door.” “There may be 200 people under the rubble.” That quake killed more than 17,000 people, including about 1,000 in Istanbul. A second tremor was felt at 04:26am local time (0126GMT), with the epicentre in the town of Nurdağı, some 80km (50 miles) south-west. Residents in the town of Pazarcık said they feared for those trapped under fallen buildings. People are all outside, all in fear.” There are buildings that are cracking. There are destroyed buildings around me, there are houses on fire. Thank God, our friends are safe, but we heard there are people who can’t get out of their homes and there are people we can’t reach,” he said.

A 7.8 magnitude quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. At least five deaths were reported ...

The civil defense urged people to evacuate buildings to gather in open areas. In northwest Syria, the opposition's Syrian Civil Defense described the situation in the rebel-held region as "disastrous" adding that entire buildings have collapsed and people are trapped under the rubble. The quake was felt in the capital Ankara and other Turkish cities, and also across the wider region, according to BBC News. Tallies from various officials put the toll at at least 18 dead in Turkey and 13 in Syria. Syria's assistant health minister said 42 people were killed in government-held areas of the country in Monday's earthquake. At least 100 people were killed, and the death toll was expected to rise.

At least 10 people were killed in Turkey after an earthquake shook the country's south and also northern Syria, two local Turkish officials said.

[The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles.html) [read more](/business/environment/earthquake-magnitude-77-strikes-turkey-gfz-2023-02-06/) ANKARA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed in Turkey after an earthquake shook the country's south and also northern Syria, two local Turkish officials said.

A POWERFUL 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing dozens, levelling buildings while people were still in their sleep, ...

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“We hope that we will get through this disaster together as soon as possible and with the least damage,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted. His ...

"Many hospitals are full, but some critical facilities, including Al Dana Hospital, had to evacuate patients after sustaining severe damage from the earthquake," the group said in a statement. Rubble fell from the empty space between the buildings. Strained health facilities and hospitals were quickly filled with the injured, rescue workers said. Turkey, meanwhile, is home to millions of refugees from the conflict. Many of them live in buildings that are already damaged from past bombardments. Rubble fell from the chimney. The opposition-held regions in Syria are packed with about 4 million people displaced from other parts of the country by the fighting. That is the disaster here." Many buildings were flattened into piles of pancaked floors, with aftershocks continuing to rattle the region. The buildings were shaking as if they were shaken by Jinn [evil spirits]. The student added, "We are now outside since we left our homes around 4 a.m. Officials in Turkey said at least 2,316 people were killed with more than 13,000 injured.

A powerful earthquake has struck in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 500 people as they slept and trapping many others.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: France, Germany, Israel, and the US have also pledged to help. We need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. The UK has said it will send 76 specialists, equipment and rescue dogs. The country's worst earthquake disaster was in 1939 when 33,000 people died in Turkey's eastern Erzincan province. Thousands of buildings across both the countries have collapsed, and several videos show the moment they fell, as onlookers ran for cover. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. Survivors said it took two minutes for the shaking to stop. There have been dozens of fatalities reported in rebel-held areas. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the "We're still feeling regular after-shocks... The second quake - triggered by the first - had a magnitude of 7.5, and its epicentre was in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province.

ISTANBUL: A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday (Feb 6), killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings, ...

"It is not possible to give the number of dead and injured at the moment because so many buildings have been destroyed," Coskun said. Advertisement

The quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter morning, was also felt in Cyprus and Lebanon. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“The earthquake struck in a region that we feared. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.8 quake struck at a depth of 17.9km. In the border town of Azaz - an area held by opposition forces - a rescue worker carried a toddler from a damaged building. He was the fifth to be pulled from the rubble, it said. We pulled out the injured with friends, but the screaming didn’t stop. “Tens of buildings have collapsed in the city of Salqin,” a member of the White Helmets rescue organisation said in a video clip on Twitter, referring to another town about 5km from the Turkish border. In 1999, Duzce was hit by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake – the worst to hit Turkey in decades. “We were shaken like a cradle. There were nine of us at home. “There was a huge noise and the building next to ours collapsed when the earthquake happened,” said a 30-year-old in Diyarbakir. I started pulling rocks away with my hands. The quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter morning, was also felt in Cyprus and Lebanon.

ISTANBUL: A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday (Feb 6), killing at least 1,200 people as they slept, levelling buildings, ...

"It is not possible to give the number of dead and injured at the moment because so many buildings have been destroyed," Coskun said. Advertisement

It was 04:17 local time when Erdem, asleep at his home in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, was shaken from his sleep by one of Turkey's biggest-ever earthquakes.

"My sister and her three children are there," he told AFP. "I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I've lived," he said. "I started pulling rocks away with my hands. "There was screaming everywhere," one 30-year-old man told Reuters. People went to their cars to escape the damaged buildings. We pulled out the injured with friends, but the screaming didn't stop.

The initial quake was followed by more than 50 aftershocks, including a 7.5-magnitude tremor that jolted the region in the middle of search and rescue work on ...

"We opened it and suddenly all the building collapsed." Even now, many families are under the rubble," said Ismail Alabdallah. The rescue was being hampered by a winter blizzard that covered major roads in ice and snow. "My sister and her three children are there. The head of Syria's National Earthquake Centre, Raed Ahmed, called it "the biggest earthquake recorded in the history of the centre". "Since I live in an earthquake zone, I am used to being shaken," said Melisa Salman, a reporter in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras.

A second earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, after the death toll from a first quake rose near 1300.

The EU Council in May 2022 [reported 371 deaths and 1,089 injured](https://www.sana.sy/?p=1832075) in the Aleppo, Hama, Latakia and Tartous regions, as a result of the first earthquake. The humanitarian White Helmets rescue service, which operates in Turkey and the opposition-controlled parts of Syria, had earlier estimated Syrian life losses near 221, with 419 injured. "Italy and Hungary have offered their rescue teams to Türkiye as well. AFAD said the second quake took place at 1:32 p.m. - AFAD said the second quake took place at 1:32 p.m.

Ankara calls for international assistance after biggest quake in more than 80 years causes huge destruction.

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More aftershocks are expected in the next couple of weeks or even months, potentially leading to more deaths, says an expert.

And it will not help us to be able to better predict earthquakes, but to better prepare for them,” he said. So, I expect that this earthquake will now be studied, not only by my team, but by many others across the globe to really understand what happened during this earthquake. We wonder whether these damaged buildings can withstand another aftershock of high magnitude,” he said. So it requires international aid activities to provide shelter, clean water, food and supplies,” he said. He noted that this earthquake exceeds the magnitude of the 1999 quake near Istanbul which had more than 15,000 fatalities. After that it's very unlikely to find any further survivors,” he said.

The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday has leveled Gaziantep Castle, a historic site and tourist attraction in southeastern Turkey.

In some bastions, large cracks were observed," the report said. and expanded over time. The retaining wall next to the castle also collapsed.

It was a big earthquake - registered as 7.8, classified as "major" on the official magnitude scale. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing ...

This has replaced the better known Richter scale, now considered outdated and less accurate. A tremor of 2.5 or less usually cannot be felt, but can be detected by instruments. These plates often try to move but are prevented by the friction of rubbing up against an adjoining one. The Turkish earthquake at 7.8 is classified as major and usually causes serious damage, as it has in this instance. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing serious damage to buildings near the fault. The next 24 hours are crucial to find survivors.

The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake had topped 2,300 by Monday evening Singapore time. Advertisement. "The Singapore Government ...

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In the early hours of Monday 6 February 2023, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Turkey's border with northern Syria.

Even before the earthquake, the situation in the region was already bad with 80% of people living in poverty. CAFOD's local experts are already on the ground and assessing the needs of those affected by the earthquake. Millions of people across Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel felt the earthquake.

A powerful earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, killing more than 3400 people and injuring thousands more.

President Biden issued a message saying he was "deeply saddened by the loss of life and devastation" in Turkey and Syria. Monday's earthquake was one of the country's worst disasters in decades. "Full solidarity with our Ally Türkiye in the aftermath of this terrible earthquake," Stoltenberg posted on his Twitter account. The U.S. Since then, at least 15 of the quakes have been magnitude 5.0 or greater, and two have been at 6.0 or more, the USGS says. are also responding to the earthquake emergency there. [more than 200 flights](https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/istanbul/over-200-flights-cancelled-in-istanbul-due-to-expected-snowstorm) for Sunday and Monday because of expected conditions. The tweet also offered emergency response support. More than 3 million residents of the area are food insecure. Groups in the rebel-held northwest say the death toll is at least 450. The first quake was the largest: a 7.8 magnitude temblor that hit at 4:17 a.m. Hundreds of families are still trapped, according to rescue workers.

The movement of the tectonic plates builds up pressure on fault zones at their boundaries. It is the sudden release of this pressure that causes earthquakes and ...

Light shaking was felt as far away as the Turkish capital of Istanbul (around 815km away), as well as Baghdad in Iraq (800km) and Cairo in Egypt (950km). The first was a 6.7 which happened only 11 minutes after the first shock, and there have been hundreds of smaller magnitude aftershocks. [7.8 out of 10](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive) on the moment magnitude scale. Later in the morning another very large magnitude 7.5 occurred further to the north on a different but adjacent fault system: the Sürgü Fault. That means a magnitude 7.8 actually releases around [6,000 times more energy](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/education/calculator.php) than the more moderate magnitude 5 earthquakes that might usually happen in the region. While this area has many earthquakes every year caused by the ongoing motion of the tectonic plates, today’s earthquake is particularly large and devastating as so much energy was released. It is the sudden release of this pressure that causes earthquakes and ground shaking. These can continue for days to years after the initial event. We tend to think of earthquake energy as coming from a single location, or epicentre, but they are actually caused by movement along an area of a fault. This means the shaking will be felt over a very large area. Data from seismometers which measure shaking of the ground caused by earthquake waves suggest this this event was a magnitude Arabia is moving northwards into Europe, causing the Anatolian plate (which Turkey sits on) to be pushed out westwards.

In Turkey, the death toll stood at 2,316, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (Afad) said. PHOTO: REUTERS. More than 13,000 people were injured ...

He added that 45 countries had offered to help in the search and rescue efforts. “People got caught in sleepwear and have been under the rubble for 17 hours,” he said. “After the earthquake struck... Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, preparing for a tough election in May, called the quake a historic disaster and said the authorities were doing all they could. Health workers did what they could to tend to the new rush of injured patients. She was standing outside the hospital, wiping away tears and praying. but we are working hard,” UN resident coordinator El-Mostafa Benlamlih told Reuters in an interview via video link from Damascus. Nearby, the body of a small child lay lifeless. “The infrastructure is damaged, the roads that we used to use for humanitarian work are damaged, we have to be creative in how to get to the people... “They’re making noises but nobody is coming,” he said. We are hungry, we are thirsty. They’re saying, ‘Save us’, but we can’t save them.

More than 1,000 people have been reported dead so far in northern Syria following the quake. Emergency rescue teams said many buildings are damaged or destroyed ...

Dozens of other nations have promised help, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar. However, BBC Monitoring's Hesham Shawish, a Middle East specialist, says this is not enough to deal with the scale of the destruction. Another said some of his relatives were trapped under the rubble. It may also take some time for international aid to arrive. Twelve hours later, a second quake, which was nearly as large, struck 130km (80 miles) to the north. " There's no one to rescue them.

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey: A huge earthquake killed more than 4300 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday (Feb 6), with freezing winter ...

but we are working hard," UN resident coordinator El-Mostafa Benlamlih told Reuters in an interview via video link from Damascus. Health workers did what they could to tend to the new rush of injured patients. He said 45 countries had offered to help the search and rescue efforts. Nearly 16,000 were reported injured in Monday's quake. "They're making noises but nobody is coming," he said. Nearby, the body of a small child lay lifeless.

Turkey and Syria's buildings have always been vulnerable to earthquakes – war has made things worse.

That means that people who are trapped in the rubble, who might be rescued, could well freeze to death. A Magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit south-eastern Turkey and parts of Syria in the early hours of the morning of 6 February. Today’s earthquake penetrated into Syria’s north-western regions with reports of buildings collapsing in Aleppo and Idlib. This is because the majority of existing buildings are low-rise brick masonry structures, constructed very close to each other. “This wasn’t a surprise,” says Puskulcu who was touring the cities of Adana, Tarsus, Mersin and west Turkey last week, delivering workshops on public earthquake awareness. The later Magnitude-7.5 event was around 4km south-east of Ekinözü in the Kahramanmaraş province.

The numbers seem certain to rise. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, said the country had been shaken by the “strongest disaster in a century”. But why ...

The most recent quake occurred along a different fault, the East Anatolian, which marches with the Arabian plate. Although meteorologists can predict disasters like hurricanes or floods, seismologists cannot yet do the same with earthquakes (though it is an active area of research). Earthquakes are common, though most happen along the North Anatolian fault, the boundary with the Eurasian plate, which runs close to Istanbul.

The epicentre was about 26km east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi at a depth of about 18km on the East Anatolian Fault. The quake radiated towards the north-east ...

“It’s not going to be good,” said Dr Musson. “We expect seismicity to continue for a while.” Turkey is in one of the world’s most active earthquake zones. A 7.5-magnitude quake came hours later, followed by another 6-magnitude spasm in the afternoon. But in 1822, a magnitude-7 quake hit the region, killing an estimated 20,000 people. The quake radiated towards the north-east, bringing devastation to central Turkey and Syria.

When Monday's earthquake struck, many poorly constructed buildings suffered a 'pancake mode' collapse.

[well-known problems in Turkey](https://revkin.substack.com/p/gauging-losses-and-lessons-in-turkeys) and elsewhere with ensuring safe building construction and adherence to seismic building codes. Many of the modern buildings have failed in a “ [pancake mode](https://www.newcivilengineer.com/archive/pancake-collapses-tell-story-of-poor-construction-15-02-2001/)” of structural collapse. For now, aftershocks continue to shake the region, and search and rescue efforts continue. The second occurred nine hours later, on what appears to be an intersecting fault, registering [a magnitude of 7.5](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqa/executive). A proportion of these buildings thus failed at shaking intensities lower than the “design code”. These effects may render many areas unsafe to rebuild on – so reconstruction efforts should also include Historical records of earthquakes in the region go back at least 2,000 years, to However, in reality, there are many factors that influence building construction practices in this region and others worldwide. The elastic strain that accumulates in this plate boundary zone is released by intermittent earthquakes, which have occurred for millions of years. The East Anatolian Fault zone that hosted these earthquakes is at the boundary between the Arabian and Anatolian tectonic plates, which move past each other at approximately 6 to 10 mm per year. [some 3,450 buildings have collapsed](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/world/europe/turkey-earthquake-rescue.html), according to the Turkish government. [measured 7.8 in magnitude](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive) and was felt as far away as the UK.

Some of the most powerful earthquakes in decades hit the Middle East on Monday, killing thousands of people in Turkey and Syria, knocking down entire ...

When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday morning local time, its tremor could be felt as far afield as ...

The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations, which provides healthcare in opposition-held parts of northwestern Syria, is also soliciting [urgent international aid](https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/catastrophic-earthquake-could-lead-humanitarian-disaster-syria-and-turkey). [immediate cash assistance](https://twitter.com/ifrc/status/1622531086822653953)” from its Disaster Response Emergency Fund to help relief efforts. Geological Survey](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive). local time and was six miles deep, according to [USGS](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqa/executive). We are determined to do all that we can to help those affected by these earthquakes in the days, weeks, and months ahead.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “Our initial assistance response to Türkiye is already underway, and U.S.-supported humanitarian organizations in Syria are responding to the earthquakes’ effects across the country. In each of these three pillars of safe construction, it is known that there are serious problems both legally and in practice.” [7.8 magnitude](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive) earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday morning local time, its tremor could be felt as far afield as Lebanon, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. The plan involved designating hundreds of urban spaces as evacuation points in case of emergency. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The former has been the site of several disastrous earthquakes, according to While the full scale of the infrastructure damage is yet to be fully known, AFAD official Orhan Tatar said late Monday that more than 5,500 buildings collapsed.

More than 4800 people are confirmed dead in the quake that struck northern Syria and Turkey.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: France, Germany, Israel and the US have also pledged to help. The UK has said it will send 76 specialists, equipment and rescue dogs. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. How are we going to save them? If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the They're saying, 'Save us,' but we can't save them. At least 1,400 people are now known to have been killed in Syria, where millions of refugees live in camps on the Turkish border. As dawn broke on Tuesday, traffic was at a standstill on the main highway to the Turkish city of Maras, close to the epicentre of the quake and believed to be one of the worst-affected areas. Few rescuers have made it to this part of southern Turkey yet and everyone is trying to get there as fast as they can to assess the damage and give vital help. Rescuers are battling heavy rain and snow as they race against the clock to find survivors of a devastating earthquake in south-east Turkey. More than 4,800 people were killed and 15,000 injured in Turkey and over the border in Syria when the quake struck in the early hours of Monday.

“Finally! He has been rescued,” said a reporter with CNN affiliate CNN Turk, which broadcast the rescue live. While the boy's rescue offers a glimmer of hope ...

Russia is the strongest foreign power operating in Syria, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has long allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The European Union activated its crisis response mechanism, while the United States said it would send two search and rescue units to Turkey. Pakistan has also dispatched two search and rescue teams to the ravaged country, while Australia and New Zealand committed funds for humanitarian assistance. “Our teams are working around the clock to help to save the injured people. And there is particular concern about the spread of illness, especially among children, who were already living in extreme hardship. “Everyone is overstretched in that part of the world … “Most of the communities depend on elevated tanks of water. At least 5,606 structures crumbled during the quake and in the hours after, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) said. Most of these elevated tanks of water were the first ones to fall, or to fall into disrepair. Broken concrete, scraps of metal, and overturned cars remain strewn across many roads and streets, making it difficult for rescuers to reach some areas. Erdogan also declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces for three months. The 7.8-magnitude quake hit just after 4 a.m.

This comes after the Singapore Red Cross pledged US$100,000 (S$132,600) in humanitarian aid to support relief efforts for those affected by the earthquake. Each ...

They are also providing psychological support, distributing hot meals and sending their national stock of blood and plasma to the affected regions. The death toll is expected to rise. The Turkish Red Crescent has deployed teams to 10 provinces in the southern and south-eastern regions of Turkey affected by the earthquake. “We hope the people of Singapore will support our fund-raising appeal, to bring hope to and help the affected communities in Turkey and Syria,” said Mr William. He said the Singapore Red Cross will continue to assess the situation with its sister national societies in the two countries, and stands ready to further support the relief efforts, including possibly deploying responders. Mr Benjamin William, secretary-general and chief executive of the Singapore Red Cross, said: “We are deeply saddened by the loss of lives and injuries, as well as damage to property and livelihoods, arising from the devastating disaster, and are committed to support the emergency relief and recovery operations.”