Tag: earthquake

This week's earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, killing more than 11,000 people, is among the world’s deadliest in recent decades. ( read original story ...)

Number of people killed in Turkey and Syria expected to keep rising; Turkish president says he ‘cannot stomach’ criticism ( read original story ...)

Atsu was one of his country’s most decorated soccer players for the better part of a decade, but it’s unclear what happened to him in Monday’s devastating earthquake. ( read original story ...)

Stories of cats and dogs and birds sensing storms and quakes are aplenty in the wake of natural disasters. And following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, videos allegedly showing this phenomenon in action have been making the rounds on social media. ( read original story ...)

The scale of destruction from the earthquake and its powerful aftershocks was so immense and spread over such a wide area, including places isolated by Syria’s ongoing civil war, that many people were still awaiting help. ( read original story ...)

Stretched rescue teams are toiling in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. ( read original story ...)

The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake Monday (Feb. 6) and aftershocks is estimated to be at least 11,200 people in the region, according to reports. ( read original story ...)

According to a specialist, the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye on Monday is one of the biggest inland earthquakes ever recorded. ( read original story ...)

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected to arrive in southern Turkey on Wednesday to examine some of the worst damage from Monday's earthquake that devastated his country and Syria, leaving thousa ( read original story ...)

The death toll from the earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria has climbed past 9,400, making it the deadliest seismic event in more than a decade.Turkish authorities updated the country’s death toll to 6, ( read original story ...)

Number of people killed in Turkey and Syria expected to keep rising as anger grows in Turkey over slow response from authorities. Syria requests aid through EU civil protection mechanism 10:46 Syria has activated the EU civil protection mechanism two days after ...

That makes it the deadliest since a 2011 earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami, killing nearly 20,000 people. Amid calls for the government to send more help to the disaster zone, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to travel to town of Pazarcik ... ( read original story ...)

Greece, Lebanon, Germany, South Korea, Algeria, Pakistan, Japan, the UK and Australia are among many other ... “We did not die from hunger or the earthquake, but we will die freezing from the cold.” In Syria, aid efforts have been hampered by the ... ( read original story ...)

Thinly stretched rescue teams pull more bodies from the rubble in Türkiye and Syria following Monday's devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake. ( read original story ...)

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake was the strongest in Turkey for about a century in a region that straddles seismic fault lines. Here is a look at the 20 deadliest earthquakes since 2000. For some, Monday's quake brought back memories of August 1999, ( read original story ...)

Dashcam footage showing vehicles shaking violently on the road is being shared on social media linking it to the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on 6 February. An archive of this post can be ... ( read original story ...)