Turkey and Syria earthquake

A frantic race was underway Tuesday to find more survivors and help the injured as the death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and ...

“The adverse weather conditions continue in the region. health agency is sending three chartered flights of medical supplies, including surgical trauma kits, to both Turkey and Syria from its logistics hub in Dubai. In Istanbul, meanwhile, thousands of aid volunteers flocked to the city’s main airport offering to participate in the search and rescue efforts. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total number of deaths in Turkey had risen to 3,419, with another 20,534 people injured. “I call on for the lifting of sanctions on Syria. ___ Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay says some 3,294 search and rescue teams from 14 countries have arrived so far to join in the efforts. And Spanish medical workers will set up a field hospital in Turkey to treat the wounded, Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said Tuesday. “Significant damage has been noted in the citadel. The United Nations’ cultural agency says it has undertaken a preliminary survey of damage to heritage sites in the earthquake-hit areas, with an aim to help rapidly secure and stabilize them. The European Commission said 25 search and rescue teams are being deployed “to the hardest hit areas,” 11 of them having already reached Turkey. Nearly 3,000 rescue personnel were there and said the number would double by Wednesday. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the road leading to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey to northern Syria was damaged, temporarily disrupting aid delivery to the rebel-held northwest.

Project HOPE is responding to a series of major earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Learn more about this emergency and how you can help.

Project HOPE currently is responding to this emergency with a team on the ground and is deploying additional emergency response teams to support the affected population. Through our collaboration with these partners, we are deploying a K-9 search and rescue team to the earthquake zone in Türkiye to conduct lifesaving operations at this critical time. Project HOPE is responding to this emergency and has deployed emergency response teams to affected areas. We anticipate that our initial response to this emergency will include the distribution of urgent medicines, emergency kits, and medical supplies. The emergency response team is prepared to deploy additional surge support as needed. Project HOPE is responding to this emergency and has personnel on the ground now. “The earthquakes that struck Türkiye and Syria this morning have already claimed thousands of lives and we anticipate a very arduous and long road to recovery ahead, including search and rescue efforts, health system reconstruction, and mass displacement,” said Rabih Torbay, Project HOPE’s President and CEO. Türkiye is the world’s largest refugee-hosting country and is home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees, many of whom live in tents or unstable buildings. More than 7,100 people have been killed and thousands more are injured following a series of major earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria on February 6. Project HOPE is responding and has a team on the way. [A major earthquake has struck Türkiye and Syria, killing and injuring thousands of people and leading to what could be a major humanitarian disaster. “It’s really a crisis, so it will take a lot of time [to recover].”

On Monday 6 February, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria. Nearly 2500 deaths have been reported and thousands of people ...

Some of our staff have lost their homes and have to be rehoused,” says Thomas Janny. At the same time, our organisation is itself facing the destruction of its offices in Idlib, Syria. The number of victims continues to rise and hundreds of houses, buildings and infrastructures have been destroyed,” reports Thomas Janny, geographic manager for SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL.

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors in southern Turkey and northern Syria after two huge earthquakes on Monday · More than 7,800 people have been ...

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.

UN says death toll could rise to more than 20000 from one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the region in at least a century.

In Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, the news of 24 junior high-school students being rescued from a collapsed hotel in the south-eastern city of Adıyaman in Turkey has been met with relief. The UN’s cultural agency Unesco said on Tuesday it was ready to provide assistance after two sites listed on its world heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the earthquake. As the scale of the devastation from the 7.8-magnitude tremor continued to unfold, the World Health Organization warned the number of deaths could exceed 20,000. The government in Damascus allows aid to enter the region through only one border crossing. The dispute over the control of the aid is hampering efforts into northern Syria, which is held by rebel groups. Turkey has deployed more than 24,400 search and rescue personnel to the quake area.

Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria Tuesday in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks ...

The government also said more than 11,000 buildings have been damaged, leaving more than 380,000 people seeking refuge in temporary shelters, hotels, mosques, and community centers. The largest aftershock, measuring 7.5, [struck about 60 miles](https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/magnitude-78-earthquake-nurdagi-turkey) to the north of the epicenter of the initial one on a different fault line. With the rescuers and onlookers seen joyously celebrating the news, the group said this scene has served to lift the spirits and hopes of other families. An estimated 4.1 million people in the affected region were already receiving United Nations humanitarian assistance. for transporting international aid has been unusable since the earthquake struck, further hampering efforts. In the southern Turkish city of Adana, worried residents outside a collapsed building watched rescue workers search for people under the rubble. More than 8,000 people in Turkey have been rescued. Aya Batrawy contributed reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. When rescue workers finally manage to dig him out, it is too late. Geological Survey said](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000jlqa&extent=36.56481,35.68085&extent=38.52024,39.4162&sort=largest&listOnlyShown=true) — a time many residents were still in bed. Two elderly women and a man were embracing each other and crying after one of their daughters had died. It took place on the East Anatolian fault, the boundary between the Anatolian plate, the African plate and the Arabian plate of the Earth's crust.

More than four million Syrians who rely on humanitarian aid live in the region affected by the earthquakes in Turkey, according to the U.N..

You can help by donating at the following [link](https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/turkey-syria-earthquake-onetime?source=ADU2011U0W27). [asking](https://www.kizilay.org.tr/Haber/KurumsalHaberDetay/7193) people to donate blood as they continue to ship blood from their existing supplies throughout the day. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an organization that responds to the most serious humanitarian crises, works in more than 40 countries. The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has been serving communities impacted by catastrophe and war since its founding in 1992. You can make a contribution to their Children’s Emergency Fund at the following The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has also mobilized aid to Syria, and is focusing on assessing the impact the quake had on water stations and any other interruptions to services. Once the initial need is completed, funds will support longer-term recovery efforts. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). They continue to service the area though at least one of their hospitals has been closed due to promised to send a team of 76 search and rescue specialists and rescue dogs to Turkey. About 3.6 million Syrian refugees live in the nation following the protracted Syrian Civil War. “Sadly, needs are rising rapidly in Syria and not everyone who requires assistance is visible.

Frantic search for people buried under collapsed buildings as death toll from Turkey-Syria earthquake passes 7900.

Death toll passes 8000 as frustration over delayed response from Turkish authorities builds and difficult conditions hinder rescue efforts.

“It’s now a race against time,” World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva. Aid officials voiced particular concern about the situation in Syria, already afflicted by a humanitarian crisis after nearly 12 years of civil war. The infant is the sole survivor of her immediate family. “Team coordination, transportation and logistical issues are not easy.”. Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces. “To ensure people get the proper help might not be easy for the first 72 hours after such major and catastrophic earthquakes,” he said.

The death toll from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria has climbed past 7700 people.

“The adverse weather conditions continue in the region. health agency is sending three chartered flights of medical supplies, including surgical trauma kits, to both Turkey and Syria from its logistics hub in Dubai. In Istanbul, meanwhile, thousands of aid volunteers flocked to the city’s main airport offering to participate in the search and rescue efforts. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total number of deaths in Turkey had risen to 3,419, with another 20,534 people injured. “I call on for the lifting of sanctions on Syria. ___ Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay says some 3,294 search and rescue teams from 14 countries have arrived so far to join in the efforts. And Spanish medical workers will set up a field hospital in Turkey to treat the wounded, Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said Tuesday. “Significant damage has been noted in the citadel. The United Nations’ cultural agency says it has undertaken a preliminary survey of damage to heritage sites in the earthquake-hit areas, with an aim to help rapidly secure and stabilize them. The European Commission said 25 search and rescue teams are being deployed “to the hardest hit areas,” 11 of them having already reached Turkey. Nearly 3,000 rescue personnel were there and said the number would double by Wednesday. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the road leading to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey to northern Syria was damaged, temporarily disrupting aid delivery to the rebel-held northwest.

Dramatic video showed a rescuer carrying the girl, whose mother, father and four siblings were killed.

A UN Security Council agreement authorises the use of just one border crossing for deliveries from Turkey into the north-west. Every second could mean saving a life," they tweeted on Tuesday. "We heard a voice while we were digging," he told AFP news agency on Tuesday. "Time is running out. The UN has vowed to use "any and all means" possible to get aid to people in the north-west, but it has said that deliveries have been halted temporarily due to damaged roads and other logistical issues. "We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord [intact], so we cut it and my cousin took her to hospital."

Damaged roads and infrastructure hinder rescue efforts after region's worst disaster in decades.

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Turkey reported a death toll of nearly 5900 early Wednesday, as search efforts were hampered by below-freezing temperatures in parts of the country.

News and Press Release in English on Syrian Arab Republic and 1 other country about Food and Nutrition, Health, Earthquake and more; published on 8 Feb 2023 ...

“It is essential that the children, who are now even more vulnerable and at risk of exploitation, are able to return to their homes and schools as soon as possible. “Humanitarian needs were already extremely severe in Northwest Syria, and this catastrophic earthquake has added trauma to ongoing crisis there. In the early stages of a crisis, as emergency actions are undertaken to meet the urgent needs of vulnerable people, safeguarding systems can struggle to develop quickly enough.

Rescuers raced to pull survivors from earthquake rubble as the death toll surpassed 9,000 in southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria on Wednesday.

Syria itself is under Western sanctions linked to the war. Even for survivors, the future seems bleak. “The state housing authority will do what is necessary.” In the northwestern Syrian town of Jindires, residents found a crying newborn still connected by the umbilical cord to her deceased mother. His daughter was there, she was sobbing – all the family members were there. “I can’t get my brother back from the ruins. [diverted](/news/2023/2/6/us-pledges-post-earthquake-aid-but-no-contact-with-syrias-assad) to benefit people and institutions linked to the government. The Syrian government has reported an additional 1,250 deaths. Amid applause from onlookers, her grandfather kissed her and spoke softly to her as she was loaded into an ambulance. But that could still increase dramatically if the worst fears of experts are realised. They are no longer hearing voices,” she said. I can’t get my nephew back.

The death toll rose Wednesday to more than 11000 in the deadliest quake worldwide in more than a decade.

The rescuers are currently trying to reach a woman who they know is in her bed. "Today isn't a pleasant day, because as of today there is no hope left in Malatya," Pikal told the AP by telephone. Syrian officials said the bodies of more than 100 Syrians who died during the earthquake in Turkey were brought back home for burial through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. But the scale of destruction from the 7.8 magnitude quake and its powerful aftershocks was so immense — and spread so wide, including in areas isolated by Syria's ongoing civil war — that many are still waiting for help. With hope fading to find survivors, stretched rescue teams toiled through the night in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. Amid calls for the Turkish government to send more help to the disaster zone, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan toured a "tent city" in Kahramanmaras where people forced from their homes are living.

Number of people killed in Turkey and Syria expected to keep rising as anger grows in Turkey over slow response from authorities.

When an emergency overwhelms the response capabilities of a country in Europe and beyond, it can request assistance from the programme. “We in the scientific community are aware of these seismic gaps, but I cannot say that we are ready from an engineering perspective.” Syria has activated the EU civil protection mechanism, two days after the earthquake, to request further assistance from the 27-country bloc and the eight other nation states that are part of the programme. A seismic gap is an area in an active earthquake zone that has not witnessed the expected earthquakes. The death toll in Syria has risen to 2,662, according to reports from AFP. Associated Press have spoken to a former journalist, Ozel Pikal, in the Turkish city of Malatya. The scale of the damage from the two earthquakes is unimaginable. There is a shortage of everything, a shortage of people to help. The rescuers said they were currently trying to reach a woman who they know is in her bed. “I’m sure I speak for the whole in saying our hearts go out to each and every victim and their families. Opposition Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: “Over 11,000 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria. A similar-sized earthquake in the region in 1999 killed at least 17,000 people.