Earthquakes

The Turkish government detained more than 100 building contractors and others who may be responsible for the collapsed buildings and deaths this week, ...

The World Health Organization warned the death toll could reach above 20,000 in an [announcement](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/02/07/turkey-syria-earthquake-who-estimates-death-toll-may-cross-20000-as-freezing-weather-and-aftershocks-slow-rescue-efforts/?sh=33c19a167133) Tuesday, an estimate that was eclipsed [Wednesday](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/09/biggest-disaster-in-the-last-century-turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-crosses-20000/?sh=302f308b5e94). [deadliest](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywashburn/2023/02/08/worst-earthquakes-and-where-turkeys-fits-in-the-10-deadliest-and-10-strongest-ones-since-1950/?sh=4d573eca57d1) in the world since 2011—toppled residential buildings, shopping centers, mosques and offices just after 4 a.m. Nearly 26,000 search and rescue workers in Turkey—in addition to added support from more than a dozen countries—are on the ground searching for survivors, [according](https://www.afad.gov.tr/kahramanmarasta-meydana-gelen-depremler-hk-basin-bulteni-20) to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority. [Turkey’s ‘Biggest Disaster In The Last Century’: Earthquake Death Toll Crosses 21,000](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/09/biggest-disaster-in-the-last-century-turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-crosses-20000/?sh=302f308b5e94) (Forbes) [Worst Earthquakes—And Where Turkey’s Fits in: The 10 Deadliest And 10 Strongest Ones Since 1950](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywashburn/2023/02/08/worst-earthquakes-and-where-turkeys-fits-in-the-10-deadliest-and-10-strongest-ones-since-1950/?sh=32f4035757d1) (Forbes) [according](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/10/turkey-earthquake-us-navy-marine-corps/) to the Washington Post, following an [announcement](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3293241/us-aids-turkey-after-devastating-quakes/) by Pentagon spokesman Brig. [according](https://www.reuters.com/world/un-aid-chief-says-earthquake-is-regions-worst-event-100-years-2023-02-11/) to Reuters. [according](https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDefe/status/1624469962503999489) to the Syrian Civil Defense. [according](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/world/middleeast/turkey-syria-earthquake.html) to the New York Times, as the death toll from the earthquake that hit the region Monday surpassed 28,000. [24,617](https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1624514684190687233) Saturday. [Anadolu](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/turkish-security-teams-crack-down-on-looters-in-quake-ravaged-areas/2816253), after seizing at least $14,700 in stolen cash among other goods, including laptops, guns and jewelry. [1,347](https://twitter.com/SANAEnOfficial/status/1623713825609469955), with 2,295 others injured, according to Syria’s health ministry—though the office has not updated its estimates since February 9. The earthquake—the

Rescue crews pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the death toll of the quake in Turkey and ...

The total death toll in Syria's northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166 many of them women and children. He said another plane carrying an additional 30 tons of medical equipment will arrive in the coming days. The conflict has isolated many areas of Syria and complicated efforts to get aid in. That followed the rescue earlier in the day of a family of five from a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdagi, in Gaziantep province, TV network HaberTurk reported. Melisa Ulku, a woman in her 20s, was extricated from the rubble in Elbistan in the 132th hour since the quake, following the rescue of another person at the same site in the same hour. Rescuers reached a 13-year-old girl inside the debris of a collapsed building in Hatay province early Saturday and intubated her. The fighting sent millions more to seek refuge in Turkey. Backhoes and bulldozers dug pits in the field on the northeastern edge of the city as trucks and ambulances loaded with black body bags arrived continuously. "People who are coming out from the rubble now, it's a miracle if they survive. Even though experts say trapped people can live for a week or more, the odds of finding more survivors were quickly waning amid freezing temperatures. But she died before the medical teams could amputate a limb and free her from the rubble, Hurriyet newspaper reported. Erdogan said a disaster of this scope is rare, affecting an area so large that is home to so many people.

The UConn Turkish Student Association has started a fundraiser to support the Turkish Philanthropy Funds' Gaziantep Earthquake Relief Fund, which will be used ...

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The appeal by a collection of aid agencies was launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee and broadcast on television on Thursday evening. DEC said donations ...

DEC Chief Executive Saleh Saeed said: "We're incredibly grateful to the British public for their hugely generous response to this horrific disaster. One of its charities, ActionAid, rescued a young girl from the rubble in north-west Syria after she was trapped for more than 36 hours. It believes the recovery effort will take years. Its own staff are among the patients being treated in intensive care. The campaign to support the disaster-struck countries raised more than £30m in its first 24 hours, with the King and Queen Consort thanked by the DEC for their "generous donation". The British Red Cross, Oxfam and ActionAid are among the charities to have joined together to raise money for the many injured and homeless, whose lives have been devastated by the natural disaster.

TURKEY — Samaritan's Purse is at work in Turkey establishing a 52-bed Emergency Field Hospital. The charity is urgently requesting prayer for all those who ...

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8-year-old Ridvan Cakiroglu rescued by Israeli search and rescue team from rubble of collapsed building 116 hours after earthquakes, on February 10, 2023 in ...

"In Turkey, they have actually quite strenuous construction rules, and what is clear is that if they had been followed far few people would have died," he said. In neighboring Syria, the U.N. He added that Erdogan's government would need to work hard before the election to have any chance of winning. The disaster hit as the president prepares for national elections that are scheduled to be held by June. He added that around 80,000 people were being treated at a hospital, and more than 1 million had been left homeless and were in temporary shelters. "This is a miracle," their relative Ilkay Yavuz said after speaking with them in an ambulance.

Experts say studies suggest that a powerful earthquake is expected to hit Turkey's largest city soon.

After the tremors in southeastern Turkey last week, some buildings that were built after 2000 collapsed. And therefore, there were abuses,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that these happened particularly during building inspections in the past. “The building might get damaged in case of a powerful earthquake, but I believe it will not collapse.” The country is particularly prone to earthquakes, as it lies in an area where several tectonic plates meet. [earthquakes](/news/liveblog/2023/2/11/turkey-syria-live-news-earthquake-death-tops-23000) – with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.6 – on Monday that killed more than 21,000 people and wounded more than 80,000 others in southeastern Turkey as of Saturday. “I generally trust my building, but I am not positive that it can handle a very strong earthquake.

Situation Report in English on Türkiye and 1 other country about Food and Nutrition, Health, Earthquake, Flood and more; published on 11 Feb 2023 by IBC.

IBC stands in solidarity with hundreds of humanitarian colleagues in Northwest Syria and the global community calling on all governments and international aid and development organizations to urgently scale up humanitarian access and earthquake relief efforts in Northwest Syria to prevent further loss of life and suffering. Visits were made to the current distribution points in Kilis including 2,000 people at the main sports field, 1,000 people at IBC Community Center, 2,000 people at the University of Kilis, and 1,000 people in the center of the city’s cemetery. Headquarters staff, in concert with global partners, are mobilizing flows of vitally important medical supplies, food, hygiene kits, and basic needs equipment to fulfill the needs of the earthquake victims. In Gaziantep and Hatay, IBC team saw the destruction of the earthquakes firsthand in disbelief. Notably, although there have been reports of harsh violence happening on the ground, this was not the experience of IBC staff- rather, in all locations visited this week, IBC field staff saw that all stakeholders were operating in full force and coordination with a massive operation on the ground led by AFAD, UMKE (medical teams), Turkish Red Crescent, the Turkish Military, volunteers, NGOs, local municipalities and governorships. Likewise in war-torn Northwest Syria the UN says up to 5.3 million people are homeless and nearly 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot food in both Türkiye and Syria. Save the Children warns that “the future of an estimated 7 million children affected in Syria and Türkiye hangs in the balance.” Beginning Thursday, IBC President Recep Uker, together with Program Directors Nalan Uker and Tolga Baca, Cross-Border Programs Manager Muhammed Assaf, Regional Coordinator Alper Mavi, and Program Coordinator Ekin Dallar have been undertaking assessments of the situation in Kilis, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Hatay, Kahramanmaras, and A’zaz. Regular search and rescue has ceased in Kilis, Sanliurfa, and Gaziantep and more attention is being put toward the hardhit provinces of Hatay, Karahmanmaras, Adiyaman, and Malatya. Over 28,000 people are reported dead so far in the aftermath of 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that rocked southern Türkiye and northern Syria just hours and kilometers apart last Monday, February 6th. In Türkiye, the three most affected provinces by number of deaths are located in Hatay, Kahramanmaras, and Gaziantep; in addition to these three provinces, seven others have been declared under a state of emergency by the Government of Türkiye for three months including Adiyaman, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya, Adana, Sanliurfa, and Diyarbakir. IBC employees in the region are safe and accounted for, though some have lost family members and loved ones and saw their entire homes destroyed.

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Rescuers pulled a survivor from earthquake rubble today, six days after one of the worst natural disasters to hit parts of Syria and Turkey, as the death ...

"We cannot intervene much, as most of the looters carry knives." It is a big problem." "There is no toilet here. "If people don't die here under the rubble, they'll die from injuries. On Saturday, Gizem, a rescue worker from the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, said she had seen looters in the city of Antakya. Rescuers pulled a survivor from earthquake rubble today, six days after one of the worst natural disasters to hit parts of Syria and Turkey, as the death toll exceeded 28,000 and looked set to rise further.

On February 6, around 4:15 a.m. local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south central Turkey near the Turkey/Syria border.

The largest aftershock at the time of writing was a M7.5 aftershock which struck 95 km (~60 miles) to the north. Members of the [disasters program](https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/disasters) area of NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences, as well as it national and international collaborators, make such maps available to a wide range of organizations such as the U.S. Other satellites, such as [Suomi-NPP](https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/esds/csda) and its nighttime lights observations can show the location of power outages. EMIT’s ability to help with such efforts are under evaluation, as part of NASA’s constant attempt to improve its observations, models, and analyses. Attached to the space station, EMIT’s observation times and locations are dictated by the station’s orbit. [Earth Observatory of Singapore](https://earthobservatory.sg/research/centres-labs/eos-rs) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to create something called a [damage proxy map for Turkey](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150949/earthquake-damage-in-turkiye). local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south central Turkey near the Turkey/Syria border. As part of its observations of the composition of material in Earth’s atmosphere, it can assess methane emissions. 6, NASA is working to share its aerial views and data from space in ways that can aid relief and recovery workers in the region, as well as improve its ability to model and predict such events. For instance, the East Anatolian fault line that generated this earthquake intersects with others in the region. “NASA’s hearts and minds are with those impacted by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “NASA takes seriously its obligation to support open science, and make information widely accessible,” said Lori Schultz, NASA’s disaster coordinator for this earthquake.

UN emergency relief coordinator says he expects tens of thousands more deaths after 'worst event in 100 years in this region'

UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths said the death toll from the earthquake is likely to “more than double”, adding that he expected tens of thousands more deaths. “It is absolutely unfair to be accused of not providing aid, when actually we have constantly been doing exactly that for over a decade and we are doing so much more even during the earthquake crisis,” Dan Stoenescu told Reuters. The Agence France-Presse has reported there has been 3,553 death in Syria. So it is in Syria where the real problems lie.” It is in Syria that the international community is far more stretched. He was pulled from the rubble in Hatay, south Turkey. And we are doing that as fast as we possibly can.” I can’t tell you precisely when that will be because it’s not clear how quickly the economy is going to recover,” he says. We are here to make sure that all children of course, are safe and protected and their families as well.” Of course, in the long term, there will be a second disaster, which is the survival of those who managed to get out of the rubble, supporting them and supporting children in accessing for example, education, with all the schools closed. Our baby was sent to Adana by helicopter ambulance for treatment.” In the tweet, he said: “The first medical intervention for our little girl, who was rescued from the rubble in the 150th hour, was performed in our Hatay Field Hospital.

The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and northwestern Syria has gone past 29,000 as rescue efforts continue. The number of deaths in Turkey rose to ...

ISLAHIYE, Turkey — It is hard to escape your thoughts in a hospital bed, although Najwa Ibish was trying. Nearly a week after the earthquakes, she wanted to ...

They have pleaded with Turkish authorities for a simple tent, but are still waiting. In Islahiye, Najwa’s other two sons have not seen their mother since she left for the hospital, 55 miles away in Gaziantep. Both were still looking for the words to tell their daughters. “You couldn’t tell then that anything was wrong.” The extensiveness of the destruction meant there was not enough excavation equipment to go around. She asked again and again for her children. It took hours for the rescue vehicles to arrive. But in the darkness, and without rescue vehicles, her relatives were powerless to lift the cinder blocks from what remained of the bedroom. And many survivors don’t know the whole truth about what they’ve lost. No one knows how many bodies the rubble still holds. Story continues below advertisement ISLAHIYE, Turkey — It is hard to escape your thoughts in a hospital bed, although Najwa Ibish was trying.

Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble as Turkey sought to maintain order across the disaster zone, concerns over looting grew and the government ...

The European Union's envoy to Syria on Sunday urged authorities in Damascus to "engage in good faith" with aid workers. "We cannot intervene much, as most of the looters carry knives." He has It was the deadliest quake in Turkey since 1939. "They rightly feel abandoned," Griffiths said, adding that he was focused on addressing that swiftly. [looters](/world/middle-east/looting-hygiene-worries-add-rescuers-burden-turkey-2023-02-11/) in the city of Antakya.

Humanitarians will launch appeals for Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes this week, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin ...

Grateful to colleagues and partners who are providing them with needed care, comfort and love,” he wrote. "And I've met some of them already today,” he said, “people who've lost their homes, whose children don't have schools to go to, who have no food, who have no money, who depend on the generosity of the Turkish people, the Turkish government and the international community.” Griffiths said “I hope what we will see is the same kind of generous, immediate and urgent international response to humanitarian needs that we have seen to those organizations helping the people of these cities to rescue the living from the dead.” He praised the courage of people, including parents, who are working round the clock in efforts to rescue their families and children from the rubble – “hoping for one more sound, for one more person to survive.” He met with families left homeless by the disaster and listened to their stories of shock and devastation. Humanitarians will launch appeals for Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes this week, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Saturday.

Turkish officials have detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods.

The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in Antakya. During a tour of quake-damaged cities Saturday, Erdogan said a disaster of this scope was rare, and again referred to it as the "disaster of the century." The death toll in Syria's northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the rescue worker group the White Helmets. The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. The child was wrapped in a space blanket and put into an ambulance. Rescue workers pulled out a man in Antakya, hours after hearing voices from beneath the rubble. Thermal cameras were used to probe the piles of concrete and metal, while rescuers demanded silence so that they could hear the voices of the trapped. A building contractor was detained by authorities on Friday at Istanbul airport before he could board a flight out of the country. He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and was home to 13.5 million people in Turkey. A day earlier, Turkey's Justice Ministry announced the planned establishment of "Earthquake Crimes Investigation" bureaus. I did everything according to the rules," the DHA news agency reported. Turkey's justice minister has vowed to punish anyone responsible, and prosecutors have begun gathering samples of buildings for evidence on materials used in constructions.

As rescuers still pulled some from the rubble, Turkish officials detained or issued warrants for those allegedly involved in constructing buildings that ...

The death toll in Syria's northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the rescue worker group the White Helmets. The man, Mustafa Sarigul, appeared to be unscathed as he was being transported on a stretcher to an ambulance, 149 hours after the first quakes, private NTV television reported. During a tour of quake-damaged cities Saturday, Erdogan said a disaster of this scope was rare, and again referred to it as the "disaster of the century." An exhausted rescuer removed his surgical mask and took deep breaths as a group of women could be heard crying in joy. Rescuers, including crews from other countries, continued to probe the rubble in hope of finding additional survivors who could yet beat the increasingly long odds. A building contractor was detained by authorities on Friday at Istanbul airport before he could board a flight out of the country.

A triple junction is a point where three tectonic plates meet and interact. These are important areas of geological activity and can be sites of significant ...

Asked what could happen if a large-scale earthquake event, like the one in Turkiye, strikes the Himalayas, he said the destructive potential of an earthquake depends on several factors, including depth and proximity to populated areas. A strict monitoring mechanism is required for the new buildings and a massive exercise is needed to map out each and every existing building. Now, India is increasing the resilience of communities to enable people to rebound after a disaster. Around 11 per cent of the country' area falls in Zone V, 18 per cent in Zone IV and 30 per cent in Zone III and the remaining in Zone II. On India's disaster preparedness and response, experts said the country has a dedicated, well-equipped and trained force -- the NDRF -- which has the wherewithal to reach the right place at the right time. He added that the impact of a large-scale earthquake can be reduced if people and institutions strictly comply with the bylaws and codes to build resilient structures. According to experts, the resonant frequency of a building can play a critical role in determining the level of damage it experiences during an earthquake. Hence, the structures collapsed like a pack of cards," Mishra said. One of them is where the Arabian Plate, the African Plate and the Anatolian Plate meet. The breaking of this junction led to the massive earthquake that devastated Turkiye and Syria, leaving more than 25,000 dead, he said. There are a few earthquakes of magnitude 4 and 5 as well," said OP Mishra, director at the Ministry of Earth Sciences' National Centre for Seismology. "The triple junction on India's western side near the border with Pakistan is continuously releasing stress due to the occurrence of micro-level earthquakes.

The death toll from Monday's quakes stood at 28191 on Sunday morning, with more than 80000 others injured.

The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Authorities said more than 92,600 other people were injured in the disaster. Overnight, a child was also freed in the town of Nizip, in Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, while a 32-year woman, was rescued from the ruins of an eight-storey building in the city of Antakya. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. A six-year-old boy was removed from the debris of his home in Adiyaman city on Sunday, 151 hours after the quake. On Sunday, authorities in the province of Gaziantep arrested two people who are suspected of having cut down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said.

Stricter regulations were promised after quake two decades ago, but poor construction has played major role in latest disaster.

The Turkish government has periodically held so-called “construction amnesties” since the 1960s, in which construction companies and building owners have had lacking safety certification waived for a fee – a policy that is believed to have generated billions of lira. It is true that we were not expecting an earthquake of this scale, in this area, so it was unforeseen in that respect. “The death toll would have been greatly reduced, as buildings that are designed to withstand earthquakes are less likely to collapse. Proper enforcement of safety codes would have meant a “completely different picture now”, said Hakan Süleyman, a researcher in the department of earthquake engineering at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University. In the aftermath, authorities promised stricter building regulations and introduced an “earthquake tax” aimed at improving preparedness in a country that sits on two major geological faultlines. On paper, Turkish building safety standards are among the best in the world, and they are regularly updated with specific rules for earthquake-prone regions.

Istanbul, Sunday, 12 February - In Türkiye, local businesses are on the frontlines of emergency relief operations being organized in the immediate aftermath ...

The “As we have experienced in the past, the economies of disaster areas are seriously affected and it is difficult for them to recover,” said Arda Batu, Secretary-General of TÜRKONFED. The assistance provided by local companies on the ground, who have transportation and logistics capacities in the affected regions, has been crucial. - The CBi in Türkiye is collecting donations from individuals and businesses and responding to urgent requests from emergency responders for equipment, resources, and logistical and transportation support. In addition, CBi Member Networks from all over the world are providing additional in-kind support and deploying search and rescue experts.

Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors.

He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and was home to 13.5 million people in Turkey. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. His lawyer suggested the public was looking for a scapegoat. A building contractor was detained by authorities on Friday at Istanbul airport before he could board a flight out of the country. “We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria. The child was wrapped in a space blanket and put into an ambulance. The woman asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Rescue workers pulled out a man in Antakya, hours after hearing voices from beneath the rubble. 6 rose to 33,179 on Sunday and was certain to keep increasing as search teams locate more bodies in the rubble. Thermal cameras were used to probe the piles of concrete and metal, while rescuers demanded silence so that they could hear the voices of the trapped. Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, posted a video of a young girl in a navy blue jumper who was rescued. The pair were reportedly on their way to Georgia.

Rescue crews in Turkey and Syria searched for signs of life in freezing temperatures as survivors expressed frustration about rescue efforts. Updates.

The Syrian civil war has been going on for now a dozen years," Miliband told ABC, adding, "The world has moved on. ["There are many stories of people surviving well past the seven-day mark," Lee added. Murathan Adil was able to retrieve the device, belonging to a woman who gave her name as Mama Busra, but the battery was dead. He warned Syrians are in "grave danger of a secondary crisis" because aid is largely blocked across the Turkey-Syria border, and only one humanitarian crossing point is open. There were so few rescue teams that they could only intervene in places they were sure there were people alive," she said. But, frankly, that’s an indirect route and it’s caught up in politics," he told the outlet. "On the Syrian side of the border, it’s people who’ve frankly been abandoned over the last 10 years." Miliband called on the U.N. You’ve got a massive aid effort underway," David Miliband, president and CEO of the organization, told ABC. Refugee Agency said, and the number of fatalities in both countries continues to rise. ►Two women, one of them pregnant, were rescued more than 155 hours after the first quake, according to broadcast reports in Turkey. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said they were Burak and Kimberly Firik and their sons, ages 1 and 2.