7.8 Earthquake in Turkey and Syria - (current death count: 25,000+)

 
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 7:26 am    Post subject: 7.8 Earthquake in Turkey and Syria - (current death count: 25,000+)

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Turkey earthquake live updates: At least 2,300 dead in Turkey, Syria after powerful quake

More than 2,300 people are dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday, according to The Associated Press.

The pre-dawn quake was centered in the town of Pazarcik in Turkey's southeastern Kahramanmaras province and was followed by several powerful aftershocks. Thousands of buildings were toppled on both sides of the border, and the death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched for survivors in the massive piles of rubble.

Both Turkey and Syria have declared a state of emergency.


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Yeah, if thousands of buildings have toppled over, the death count is going to be in the ten thousands.

For comparisons sake:

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In August 1999, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Turkish city of Izmit killed more than 17,100 people and injured 50,000 others.

More than 500,000 homes were destroyed, largely due to the widespread use of poor-quality building materials.

Since then, Turkey has tried to improve regulations to prevent or reduce the possibility of buildings collapsing.


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On October 8, 2005, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook the Kashmir region (a disputed territory controlled in part by Pakistan and India), along with sections of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. More than 80,000 people perished as a result of the quake, while an estimated 4 million others were left homeless.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 10:02 am    Post subject:

Some of the scariest earthquake footage I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZshQKKm3-YM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkVxQJYg9ec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vIg8YCzwo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzZQjd93vQ
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2023 10:35 am    Post subject:

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Turks in London wait for word from their relatives after the quake.

Giray Dalgic, a 23-year-old business student at King’s College London, was watching TV just after 1 a.m. on Monday when he received a frantic WhatsApp message from his 15-year-old cousin in Turkey.

An earthquake had just hit, and she was trapped in her fourth-floor apartment in Nurdagi, about 40 miles outside the city of Gaziantep, near the epicenter of the quake.

When Mr. Dalgic called her, she answered the phone screaming. He tried to calm her down over FaceTime, as she, her sister and their parents tried to find a way out of their building. He said they managed to escape, climbing around broken furniture and collapsed walls. Minutes later, the building partly collapsed.

Mr. Dalgic, who stayed up all night trying to find out information and coordinate relief efforts, said he was still waiting for word from some of his extended family members.

“We’ve got relatives that are under the collapsed buildings. We can’t reach them,” he said. “We feel completely out of help, sitting in London without doing anything.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake


Any Turks/Syrians here in the US going through this, prayers.

Must be hard for Enes Kanter Freedom right now.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:56 pm    Post subject:

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The death toll surpasses 22,600.


Meanwhile, the death toll continued to rise as Turkey’s disaster management agency said Friday more than 19,300 people had been confirmed dead with more than 77,000 injured. More than 3,300 have been confirmed dead in Syria.


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More than 5,700 buildings in Turkey have collapsed, according to the country’s disaster agency.



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Monday’s quake was also one of the strongest that Turkey has experienced in the last century – a 7.8 magnitude quake hit the east of the country in 1939, which resulted in more than 30,000 deaths, according to the USGS.


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How does this quake compare globally?

In comparison with other large earthquakes around the world, the 2011 Japan quake and tsunami – in which more than 22,000 people were killed or went missing – registered a magnitude of 9.1.

That incident left widespread destruction in its wake after walls of water engulfed entire towns, dragged houses onto highways and caused the country’s worst nuclear disaster on record.

A year before, in 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti is estimated to have killed between 220,000 to 300,000. A further 300,000 people were injured, and millions were displaced.

In 2004, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 struck the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that left 227,898 people dead or listed as missing and presumed dead.

The strongest earthquake on record was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile in 1960, according to the USGS.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:54 am    Post subject:

Some amazing stories:

1) 10 DAYS old baby boy rescued after 90 hours:

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10-day-old baby boy rescued from rubble of Turkey earthquake after 90 hours

The baby, named Yagiz Ulas, was just 10 days old when he was rescued, along with his mother, Reuters reported.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/10-day-baby-boy-rescued-rubble-turkey-earthquake/story?id=97030283


2) 10 year old rescued after 90 hours:

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10-year-old Turkish girl found alive under rubble in 90th hour since the earthquake

A 10-year-old girl was found alive in the 90th hour since Turkey's earthquake, according to a statement from the Antalya Metropolitan Fire Department on Thursday. The first thing she asked for after her rescue was milk, the statement said.

Hilal Sağlam was trapped underneath the rubble of a building located in the Hatay province. The rescue team "heard the sound from under the rubble" and were able to rescue Sağlam "as a result of a meticulous 7-hour work in the wreckage," the statement added,

"The injured girl, who was taken to the stretcher with great joy and applause, was sent to the hospital for treatment by ambulance," the fire department said.



3) 17 year old rescued after 94 hours:

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Adnan Muhammed Korkut, 17, was pulled from a basement in western Turkey’s Gaziantep Province. While trapped for 94 hours, Korkut was forced to drink his own urine to survive. Relatives wept as he was rescued, and he embraced his mother and others as he was taken to an ambulance.


4) 3 year old rescued after 103 hours:

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Meanwhile, a 3-year-old named Zeynep Ela Parlak was rescued from the rubble in Hatay province over 100 hours after the earthquake, according to the Turkish news outlet Anadolu Agency.

Search and rescue team members cry after rescuing 3.5-year-old Zeynep Ela Parlak from under the rubble of a collapsed building, Feb. 10, 2023, 103 hours after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit Turkey's Hatay province.


5) 4 year old rescued after 105 hours

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In Adıyaman, a city in southeastern Turkey, a 4-year-old was given a jelly bean to calm him as he was rescued from the remnants his home 105 hours after the earthquake struck.


6) Family of 5 rescued after 129 hours

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5 family members pulled from rubble after 129 hours as death toll tops 25K

Rescuers in Turkey pulled a family of five to safety on Saturday after they had spent five days in their collapsed home following an earthquake that is responsible for the deaths nearly 25,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

The mother and daughter, Havva and Fatmagul Aslan, were the first retrieved from the debris in the town of Nurdagi, according to HaberTurk.

Later on, the teams reached the father, Hasan Aslan, but he insisted that his other children be saved first.


Wow, these kids are resilient!

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96 hours = 4 days
120 hours = 5 days
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