Earthquake

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Samar, Philippines region on Thursday, the European Mediterranean Siesmological Centre said.

Feb 16 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Samar, Philippines region on Thursday, the European Mediterranean Siesmological Centre said. The earthquake was at a depth of 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) below the earth's surface, EMSC said. Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes Samar, Philippines region -EMSC

Volunteers continue to search for survivors more than a week after earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria.

After the rescue operations will end, I want to keep volunteering in other fields to support my people.” “I wanted to leave Turkey and emigrate to Europe,” said Levant, a member of the Arama ve Kurtarma [Search and Rescue] team.“But now I want to stay and volunteer for the coming months. With temperatures dropping dramatically, many displaced people are living in tents in open-air areas.

As more survivors are found following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, experts reveal how people can survive while trapped for days ...

"People are dehydrated and the first thing to fail is their kidney," he said. "There are many different things that can be helpful that we have access to, and it depends on the environment and our own willingness to volunteer information," he said. In general, it's considered to be very helpful, but it's not for everybody." there's this sort of spiritual process of some kind, there's a physiological process of some kind, and physical process of some kind that, all together, come to help us to survive for as long as possible." "It really very much has to do with our perception of danger or threat," he said. "In these circumstances, we as human beings are able to activate mechanisms that are needed in order to survive," Maidenberg said. Flexibility means being in a very uncomfortable -- physically and emotionally -- position for prolonged periods of time." "It's unpredictable and uncontrollable and, as human beings, we all have to accept that reality of it and the uncertainty that is associated with not knowing when and how intense it could happen." "The inclement weather also plays a role," Morris said. "And so, finding a way to communicate, making repetitive noise, this usually involves some sort of tapping against the infrastructure where people are trapped." but the majority of people will not die without eating." "The idea that you need food to survive, that's just not the case," he said.

A confused woman asked her rescuers "What day is it?" when pulled alive from the rubble of last week's earthquake after 228 hours, Turkey's state-run news ...

Eryilmaz told Anadolu that the first thing she asked was “What day is it?” On the other hand, it may reduce the demands for water. In the same region, emergency workers saved a 35-year-old woman believed to have been buried for around 205 hours, according to state broadcaster TRT Haber. Rescue personnel Mehmet Eryilmaz talked about the moment they found the mother and said, “The mother was happy to see us. Anadolu reported that she is a foreign national but did not mention what nationality. On Wednesday, Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense released video showing rescuers extricating the 77-year-old woman from debris in the city of Adiyaman on Tuesday, some 212 hours after the earthquake struck.

The warning for Turkey's largest city comes as the death toll from last week's quake in Turkey and northern Syria now exceeds 40000.

The warning comes as Istanbul's Mayor Ekrum Imamoglu said on a Turkish TV program that the current estimate of buildings at risk of collapse in a quake is nearly twice as large as the previous administration believed. ISTANBUL — The mayor of Istanbul is warning that some 90,000 buildings could be at risk of collapsing if a major earthquake strikes Turkey's largest city.

Two days after a devastating earthquake struck, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited one of the worst affected areas and declared that it was "not ...

And there are approximately [150,000 civil engineers](http://www.ecceengineers.eu/members/members/turkey.php?id=39) in Turkey who have the knowledge and skills to construct buildings, roads and dams that may suffer strain from seismic events but not fail. The nonimplementation of the revised disaster plan reflects the gap between knowledge and action in managing Turkey's seismic risk. [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com) under a Creative Commons license. [1999 earthquakes in the Marmara region](http://ifrc.org/article/marmara-earthquake-20-years) of northwestern Turkey—in which more than 17,000 died—the Turkish government instituted a major program of recovery and rebuilding intended to strengthen building codes and improve cross-jurisdictional coordination. The law raised awareness to some degree, but five significant earthquakes in the 1990s shattered any expectations that existing preparedness measures were sufficient to protect the [growing population](https://phys.org/tags/growing+population/) from death and destruction. [estimated US$4.6 billion](https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/inside-turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogans-evil-and-disturbing-attempt-to-censor-criticism-following-deadly-earthquakes/news-story/27c381626411a95e195e51751a796284) has been raised through the levy. It set out the role of government institutions in case of a disaster under sections such as nutrition group, emergency sheltering group and communication group. [death toll](https://phys.org/tags/death+toll/) from the earthquakes of Feb. The approach was to decentralize and reverse the top-down governance approach, enabling local communities to strengthen their own capacity for managing disaster risk. The magnitude 7.7 [earthquake](https://phys.org/tags/earthquake/) hit while many were sleeping in the town of Pazarcık in Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey—the epicenter of the quake. The North Anatolian Fault, 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) long, runs east to west across the northern half of the country, menacing the major cities of Ankara, the country's capital, and Istanbul, and threatening the most industrialized section of the country. In Turkey, the lack of preparedness contrasts sharply with the known conditions of seismic risk that the country faces.

Guidance from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, Penn Global, and Penn Medicine's disaster preparedness team on how to help from afar and what ...

Rosqueta](https://www.impact.upenn.edu/people/katherina_rosqueta/) is the founding executive director of the [Center for High Impact Philanthropy](https://www.impact.upenn.edu/), adjunct faculty in the [University of Pennsylvania](https://www.upenn.edu/)’s [School of Social Policy & Practice](https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/), and faculty co-director of the [High Impact Philanthropy Academy](https://www.impact.upenn.edu/high-impact-philanthropy-academy/). [Jonathan Bar](https://www.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/emergency-medicine/education-and-training/fellowship-program/emergency-medical-services-fellowship/faculty/bar-jonathan) is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine and director of emergency preparedness at the [Perelman School of Medicine](https://www.med.upenn.edu/). [Rodolfo (Rudie) Altamirano](https://global.upenn.edu/isss/rudiea) is executive director of International Student & Scholar Services and Immigration Services and Integration Programs at [Penn Global](https://global.upenn.edu/). “They’re facing significant challenges: the weather, infrastructure, geopolitical considerations.” Beyond that, “it’s a natural disaster on top of a manmade crisis, a conflict that had already led to the displacement of many people,” says [Kat Rosqueta](https://www.impact.upenn.edu/people/katherina_rosqueta/), founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy in the [School of Social Policy & Practice.](https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/) They have access to global supply chains and bring experience from working in some of the toughest situations imaginable.” Sana Saeed from the chaplain’s office spoke, as did representatives from the Middle East Center, Student Health and Counseling, and Student Registration & Financial Services. “Pooled funds combine donations from lots of different sources, individuals, institutions, and donate them to local nonprofits,” Rosqueta says. Understand that no two people will react the same way and that reactions can change daily. From the philanthropic giving perspective, Rosqueta says, the crisis is still in the first, immediate phase. Yet, she adds, the need for support—financial and otherwise—remains long after news outlets have moved on. In the middle of winter, hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter in a region already pummeled by a 12-year refugee crisis. “Such large nonprofits specialize in crisis response.

In response to criticism of the efforts to rescue buried survivors, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly said that it was “impossible to prepare ...

Building in earthquake resilience adds maybe 20% to to costs of a construction project, so the temptation to ignore the regulations is obvious. [journalists are reporting](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkeys-lax-policing-building-codes-flagged-quake-97027265) how these building codes have been widely flouted in Turkey. They have introduced a series of progressively more stringent seismic building codes, claiming to have learned lessons from the For example, foundations can be made deeper, connecting to bedrock (because this shakes less than soil), or they can be mounted on flexible pads to isolate the building from ground motion. The Turkish government gambled with its peoples’ lives, and lost. In an area at risk of large earthquakes, a multistorey building should be designed so that when the ground starts to shake, its outer walls on either side sway in unison in the same direction as each other. That way, people are not killed during the earthquake and they still have their homes afterwards. This happened to deadly effect in Turkey. Would they be willing to go? Yet it allowed builders to flout earthquake resilience construction regulations. Where would they live and work afterwards if they came back to find their homes destroyed? Days ahead, there are occasionally warning signs of a major earthquake such as inexplicable night-time

Here's how you can help the Red Cross relief efforts in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023.

Your financial donation to the Red Cross helps provide shelter, meals, relief supplies, emotional support, recovery planning and other assistance during disasters. [Turkey](https://www.nbcdfw.com/tag/turkey/) and northern [Syria](https://www.nbcdfw.com/tag/syria/) on Feb. [Go to the Red Cross site and click the drop-down menu to donate to Türkiye (Turkey) Earthquake.](https://www.redcross.org/donate/cm/nbc5-pub.html/)

Beyhan Maybach, a Turkish native who now lives in Lakewood, is working with the Turkish American Cultural Society of Colorado. Here's how you can help, too.

Maybach went to the airport where she connected with a Belgium army rescue team and became their guide and interpreter in the search and rescue effort. Cold weather hampered efforts to save those trapped in the rubble and added to the challenges for survivors. Maybach is also helping the group organize a candlelight vigil at Denver’s Washington Park this Friday at 6 p.m. The country sits at the intersection of two major tectonic plates and stories of destruction from earthquakes date back thousands of years. She was in her early 20s at the time and had extensive mountaineering experience. Beyhan Maybach remembers being thrown from her bed in her parents' home in Istanbul in the early morning hours on Aug.

Tremor struck around 2:10 am Thursday, local residents report damage.

No tsunami warning was issued. Earlier, a magnitude 4.8 quake was detected on Wednesday at 5.18 pm in the same area, Phivolcs reported.

The quake happened at 2:10 am near the town of Batuan, Masbate, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs said it was ...

Adonis Dilao, head of the Masbate Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said Masbate’s coliseum was damaged but no injuries had been reported yet. - Intensity IV – City of Legazpi, Albay; Aroroy, Cataingan, Esperanza, Milagros, and Pio V. - Intensity VII – City of Masbate, Masbate

A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocked central Philippines early Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the mountain town of Dolores in Abra province, injuring several people, damaging buildings and cutting power to most of the region. The last major quake was in October in the northern Philippines. The Masbate education department reportedly suspended classes for Thursday due to "continuous aftershocks being felt" in the province. But buildings and other structures in the area did not appear to be damaged, he said. The strong and shallow quake struck off Masbate province in the centre of the archipelago nation shortly after 2:00 a.m. Gregorio Adigue, a disaster officer in the Dimasalang municipality, said he felt a strong aftershock nearly an hour after the quake.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) initially reported it was a magnitude 5.7 quake, but it was upgraded to magnitude 6. In its ...

It last moved in 2020, triggering a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the area. Intensity VII - City of Masbate, Masbate The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) initially reported it was a magnitude 5.7 quake, but it was upgraded to magnitude 6.

News and Press Release in English on Türkiye and 1 other country about Health, Shelter and Non-Food Items and Earthquake; published on 15 Feb 2023 by ...

From there, the Malteser are organizing emergency aid for the people in Türkiye and Syria. Our colleagues in Türkiye and Malteser International headquarters in Cologne are working nonstop to procure further relief supplies, and to bring those over to Türkiye” says Dr. At the same time, medical support by our partners in northwestern Syria continues in the hospitals. “Our partner organizations in Syria are also supporting the affected people with relief supplies, such as tents and blankets”, explains Weiss. He stays in close contact with the Malteser Team in Türkiye from Cologne. Humanitarian aid for the people affected by the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria continues at full speed.

Syria Civil Defence, a humanitarian group also known as the White Helmets, has rescued more than 2,900 people from the wreckage, reuniting families. The White ...

“The United States will continue to support the people of Türkiye and Syria.” [@USAID]is providing $85M to help people in [#Türkiye]& [#Syria]affected by the region’s worst earthquake in nearly a century. This funding will support the provision of food, winter supplies, shelter, health care, & more for affected populations. - The U.N. The White Helmets, a long-standing partner of the U.S. The U.S.-supported Syria Recovery Trust Fund and its local partners, for example, have distributed 15,000 packages of bread per day, roughly 16 metric tons, to Aleppo after the earthquake. partners in Syria have already begun delivering aid to the Syrian people. assistance ](https://share.america.gov/after-earthquake-us-assists-turkiye-syria/) deployed to Türkiye after the earthquake, including a Disaster Assistance Response Team with search and rescue teams. humanitarian partners and delivers urgently needed aid for millions of people in both countries. The funding supports U.S. The teams are equipped with rescue dogs and thousands of pounds of specialized equipment. They also discussed the importance of keeping the Syria-Türkiye border open for aid to flow.

The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes is nearing 42,000. · Turkish authorities say 36,187 people have been killed in the country.

Builders had been allowed to pay a 'construction amnesty' for breaches of tighter codes introduced after the 1999 earthquake.

[journalists are reporting](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkeys-lax-policing-building-codes-flagged-quake-97027265) how these building codes have been widely flouted in Turkey. Building in earthquake resilience adds maybe 20 per cent to the costs of a construction project, so the temptation to ignore the regulations is obvious. The Turkish government gambled with its people’s lives, and lost. It has introduced a series of progressively more stringent seismic building codes, claiming to have learned lessons from the For example, foundations can be made deeper, connecting to bedrock (because this shakes less than soil), or they can be mounted on flexible pads to isolate the building from ground motion. In an area at risk of large earthquakes, a multistorey building should be designed so that, when the ground starts to shake, its outer walls on either side sway in unison in the same direction as each other. Social Europe is an independent publisher and we believe in freely available content. That way, people are not killed during the earthquake and they still have their homes afterwards. This happened to deadly effect in Turkey. Subscribe to our free newsletter and stay up to date with the latest Social Europe content. Where would they live and work afterwards if they came back to find their homes destroyed? Days ahead, there are occasionally warning signs of a major earthquake such as inexplicable night-time

Even as rescuers rush to arrive, it's often locals who can best offer immediate help, experts say. And they say governments in devastated areas often fail ...

"These are not normal conditions and so one of the traps that we fall into is, 'Oh God, what's the best thing to do at this moment?' Stop it with 'best.' It's all good. They are very easy to construct and can easily hide imperfections, he said. "It takes a long time at each building, to have to listen and carefully remove pieces of the building debris to get to people," Lanning said. "There's a very important lesson here: It's never too early to activate your large-scale response when you're not getting any information out of a region," she said. The instinct is to wait to get more information. "The people who are going to have the most effect on the rescue is going to be your neighbors. "With emergencies, all of them, including the aftermath of an earthquake, you're not in Kansas anymore," she said. Simpson with the University at Buffalo said she wishes each time disaster strikes there would be an immediate mobilization of rescue crews and military. Simpson said this is also a reminder to: "Activate your military, immediately. This is made even more important by the fact that international teams take 24 to 48 hours to arrive, Lanning said. He noted that if a trapped individual is uninjured or has minor injuries, they can last up to a week under a collapsed building. After several hours, a small group of rescuers arrived and they were stretched thin,

Ten days on from the devastating earthquake that hit Northern Syria and Eastern Türkiye, the road transport sector remains at the heart of recovery efforts.

The TIR system is playing a role in speeding up humanitarian shipments across borders into both Syria and Türkiye. Please contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) if you can help. [Global Logistics Cluster](https://logcluster.org/earthquake-2023-February) of the World Food Programme to coordinate international logistics related to aid delivery. [TOBB ](https://www.tobb.org.tr/Sayfalar/AnaSayfa.php)and [UND](https://www.und.org.tr/) continue to focus on logistics and transport coordination into eastern parts of the country, directly and via Turkish and international humanitarian and rescue organisations. In our IRU is addressing this issue with UNECE and the International Transport Forum, as well as EU and enforcement authorities. [here](https://tobb.org.tr/Sayfalar/DepremKampanyasi.php) and [here](https://www.und.org.tr/afet-destek). [Pakistani haulage firm NLC](http://www.nlc.com.pk/), the convoy is using the [Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul (ITI) trade corridor](https://www.iru.org/news-resources/newsroom/tir-slashes-80-transit-time-new-pakistan-iran-turkey-corridor), activated in October 2021 under the TIR system. Aid from the Pakistani government is currently travelling in a convoy of 21 trucks, all under the TIR guarantee, from Pakistan via Iran to Türkiye and Syria. Many from the global road transport community have reached out to help with support and donations. [Syrian Arab Red Crescent](https://twitter.com/SYRedCrescent) has asked IRU member, the Syrian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, for help with hospital equipment donations as well as blankets and tents, and their transport via Lebanon. IRU members and the wider road transport community in Syria and Türkiye are continuing to support relief and recovery operations.

The Masbate education department reportedly suspended classes for Thursday due to "continuous aftershocks being felt" in the province, the report said.

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the mountain town of Dolores in Abra province, injuring several people, damaging buildings and cutting power to most of the region. [Rubbles scream tragic stories after deadly earthquakes in Turkey, Syria ALSO READ The strong and shallow quake happened after 2:00 am local time, jolting people awake. Uson police chief Captain Reden Tolledo told news agency AFP some residents fled their homes. However, no tsunami warning has been issued and there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, news agency AFP reported.

The magnitude six earthquake in Masbate caused no major damage so far, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said on Thursday.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake occurred 10 kilometers southwest of Batuan town in Masbate at around 2:10 am with a shallow depth of ten kilometers. MANILA, Philippines — The magnitude six earthquake in Masbate caused no major damage so far, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said on Thursday. However, the electrical supply in the whole province of Masbate and Ticao Island was interrupted, Alejandro said.

ANKARA. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit the Philippines on Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake occurred at a depth of 20.1 kilometers ...

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Manila: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 rocked the Philippines on Thursday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

local time, hit at a depth of 10 km, about 11 km southwest of Batuan town in Masbate province on the main island of Luzon, Xinhua news agency reported. The quake was also felt in several areas in Luzon and central Philippines, including Legazpi City in Albay province, Sorsogon, Northern Samar, Negros Occidental, and Southern Leyte, the institute said. The institute said the quake, which occurred at 2:10 a.m.

The February 6 earthquakes that killed more than 40000 people in Turkey and Syria could result in a loss of up to 1% of the Turkish gross domestic product ...

"The earthquake affected to a large extent agricultural areas and areas where there is light manufacturing, so spillovers to other sectors are limited," EBRD chief economist Beata Javorcik told Reuters. The country is already grappling with an [economic crisis](https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220622-inflation-in-turkey-researcher-won-t-hide-the-figures-erdogan-doesn-t-want-to-see). The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it was particularly concerned about the situation in rebel-held northwestern Syria. This means there is a risk of water-borne diseases, gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, hepatitis and even cholera...There are people who haven’t had a shower for nine days, that's since the earthquake,” he explained. It came amid uncertainties over a possible delay of general elections, set for June, due to the devastating earthquakes. Follow FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the quake aftermath.

Adiyaman's clock tower has emerged as an iconic image from the devastating earthquake after it froze at exactly 04:17, the moment the first tremor hit.

To learn more about republishing this content and the associated fees, please fill out this He said in a statement he had followed all laws and building codes in constructing the apartment building. The state would not have overcome this disaster. Why the hell didn't he rush to rescue people?" But they [the governor and other officials] did not let him see the city centre. "The problem is not confined to Adiyaman. "I have lost many relatives, there is nothing we can now do about it, but how the hell he can smile? Now, you want to talk about politics?" It is a chronic problem in Turkey. Chaos then followed, they say, as those that arrived, both Turkish and international, quickly left, some lacking the necessary equipment to extract survivors. Since then, the city has been seething with rage. Meanwhile, against all odds, people are still being pulled alive from the wreckage of their homes.

We mourn the loss of the tens of thousands of lives in Turkey and Syria after this horrific earthquake, and we rejoice in the same spirit of the rescuers ...

We see this in the slaying of three students — and the injuring of five more — on the campus of Michigan State University Feb. We see it in the horrors of clergy sexual abuse in yet another report issued from yet another country, this time Portugal. There is the side of recovery, of hope, of life. One video, shared on social media, witnessed these remarkable men lifting a family out from the rubble — one after the other, still living — to great rejoicing. 13 presented more devastating images, much of which included children, of the aftermath of the quake in Syria. While the majority of the deaths were recorded in Turkey, the earthquake was especially crippling in Syria where, unlike NATO ally Turkey, international aid was limited as a result of the politics surrounding the longstanding civil war.

A 17-year-old woman was rescued on Thursday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the southern central province of Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after ...

[Three people rescued in Turkey 198 hours after earthquake](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1729687/three-people-rescued-in-turkey-198-hours-after-earthquake#ixzz7tTIHn7nP) [Rescue dogs from Asia helping to sniff out survivors after Turkey quake](https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/?p=1729692#ixzz7tTJ0k2lx) ISTANBUL — A 17-year-old woman was rescued on Thursday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the southern central province of Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after a massive earthquake struck the area this week, killing more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Young woman rescued from rubble 248 hours after earthquake in Turkey–broadcaster

A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday more than 10 days after a devastating earthquake hit the region, but such rescues have ...

Two decades of autocratic rule have both augmented the devastation by Turkey's earthquake and weakened the government's response to it.

As is the failure of [Lebanon's corrupt clique](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/12/the-guardian-view-on-lebanons-crisis-a-people-betrayed) to get to grips with the 2020 Port of Beirut explosion. This message should ring clear as the EU offers support to Turkey's people. It should, however, do so humbly, acknowledging that its own democracies are not perfect and being mindful not to politicise humanitarian aid. China's failed zero-Covid policy and Putin's backfiring invasion of Ukraine are the clearest mishaps of autocratic rule. He has been blamed for Turkey's disastrous economic record, its involvement in neighbouring wars, and a corrupt system of government that literally kills. These cases suggest that democracies struggle to convince citizens of their positive value. Not long ago, strongmen such as Erdoğan, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were seen as the better problem solvers, unhindered by the slow compromises of democratic politics. Each has sacrificed democracy to enable a security quick fix. The aftermath of last week's earthquake in Turkey could prompt similar questions to autocratic leaders, claiming they are somehow better than democracies at "getting things done". The disaster also upset Portuguese politics and unravelled its global empire, by diverting colonial resources to rebuild the city. During his 20 years at the helm, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has amassed powers, silenced critics, and taken over independent media, with devastating effects. [Read and decide]()

A Turkish soldier walks among destroyed buildings in Hatay after a 7.8magnitude earthquake struck the. A Turkish soldier walks among destroyed buildings in ...

“Some of the artisans lost family members; others have seriously wounded relatives.” To help, Karavil and his team are assisting victims through NGOs and foundations, but he points out that ongoing support outside of the immediate event will be crucial: “It should be long-term and persistent in order to bring back life to the region and to restore the livelihoods of the affected communities.” ”We are watching the news all the time with grief and anxiety.” One of Sanayi313’s long-term collaborators, a carpet weaving atelier in Kahramanmaraş, was “severely damaged,” Karavil shares. They’re also donating 15% of Tamam sales this month to the cause, as well as to the [White Helmets](https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/?source=insta), an emergency response organization that has been providing rescue operations and relief to Syrians throughout its long, turbulent civil war. These grim scenes are an ongoing reality for vast swathes affected by the earthquake in Turkey and northwest Syria that struck on February 6, as well as by the aftershock that followed. [IKEA Foundation](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-ikea-refugee-shelter-is-the-best-design-of-2016), for example, the philanthropy arm of the furniture and homeware behemoth, has committed 10 million euros to help the non-profit Better Shelter send 5,000 of its durable, modular temporary housing units via flatpack to families in Turkey and Syria. “Then,” the Aleppo-based interior designer and antiques dealer says, “the house started shaking like a boat in the middle of the ocean, and the paintings, lamps, and vases started falling.” Immediately, he went to check on his mother and grandmother, who also live in the home that’s been passed down through four generations of the family, as well as his Doberman pinscher, Royce.

Emergency crews celebrated the 17-year-old's survival, but rescues are becoming rare.

"We have been working here in this building for a week now... But the celebrations did not last long. [the Syrian government agreed to allow the UN to use two more border crossings](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64632877). Meanwhile the United Nations (UN) launched a "flash appeal" on Thursday for $1bn in aid to help the victims in Turkey. And in Syria, the UN said that more than 100 trucks loaded with aid have crossed into the north-west of the country, since [UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement](https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2023-02-16/secretary-generals-statement-the-launch-of-the-humanitarian-appeal-for-t%C3%BCrkiye).

A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey on Thursday more than 10 days after a devastating earthquake hit the region, but such rescues have ...

“We spend our days with bread, soup and meals as part of the aid sent by people. Heavy machinery was trying to clear mounds of debris that block numerous towns and cities in southeast Turkey, including in Adiyaman. Those trucks contain the necessary medical devices to set up makeshift clinics,” said Abdallah Rajab, a food security official with the Qatar charity. We don’t have a life anymore. More than 4,000 fatalities have been reported in the rebel-held northwest, but rescuers say nobody has been found alive there since Feb. They are both under this rubble,” said Sevil Karaabdüloğlu, as excavators tore down what remained of a high-end block of flats in the southern city of Antakya, where her two daughters had lived. Earlier this week, days after the disaster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad granted approval for two additional crossings to be opened. The Syrian government says the death toll in territory it controls is 1,414. As of Thursday, 119 U.N. The potential economic impact of the earthquake in Turkey could result in a loss of up to 1% of the country’s gross domestic product this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in a report published on Thursday. “We rented this place as an elite place, a safe place. “I have two children.

A 17-year-old was dubbed the "miracle girl" when she was pulled alive from the rubble 248 hours after a fatal earthquake that ripped through southern Turkey ...

The moment Aleyna was brought into the hospital, she was conscious and talking to the doctors. When the TRT Haber correspondent reached out to Aleyna with a microphone asking how she was doing, Aleyna shook her head and smiled. She is in very good condition, and she can communicate. After the fluid therapy, Aleyna still spoke to us very well,” he added. Speaking from her hospital bed, TRT Haber cameras showed Aleyna’s eyes open, her body covered up to her neck, and tubes inserted for oxygen supplements. More than 42,000 people have died across Turkey and neighboring Syria following the powerful 7.8 magnitude quake on February 6, according to authorities.

Bodies continued to be retrieved from rubble across southern Turkey on Thursday as the death toll from the earthquake neared 42,000 and anger mounted among ...

Turkey has ordered the arrest of more than 100 developers and builders, but officials who authorised the construction have so far escaped. Developers who constructed buildings that failed to meet safety standards have borne the brunt of anger. Up to 120 aid trucks had crossed into Syria as of Thursday. This will end up being one of the biggest death zones in the country.” Rescue teams continue to work frantically across vast tracts of urban ruins, with diggers picking gently at heaped piles of rubble until a body is located. But the almost miraculous rescue was dwarfed by an ongoing recovery operation that shows little sign of slowing down.

The catastrophic earthquakes of February 6, 2023 in Turkey and Syria are so far known to have claimed the lives of over 41000 people.

[The Conversation](https://theconversation.com) under a Creative Commons license. This is probably thanks in large part to the efforts of those who recorded it in the aftermath. [Marash earthquake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1114_Marash_earthquake), named for one of the worst-hit cities. In 1114, it was ruled by the Turkish governor Tughtakin. At the time of this quake, the geopolitical map of the region looked very different from today. [The Conversation](https://phys.org/partners/the-conversation/) Writing was, and remains, a powerful tool. [dead of night](https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Walter_the_Chancellor_s_The_Antiochene_W/-9NYEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0). [wrote his own description](https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/EU7OPQAACAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3kr2-mpT9AhXG-zgGHREBBDsQ7_IDegQIKBAE) of the quake. Antakya is roughly 160km southwest of Marash and also suffered devastation. [Principality of Antioch](https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Principality_of_Antioch_and_Its_Fron/K7Q4DwAAQBAJ). Seismic activity is so frequent in this area because it sits on three continually grating tectonic plates.

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

Your donations are making a very real difference to survivors and those impacted by the earthquake. We have been amazed by your compassionate response to this emergency and your donations will help local experts in Syria and Türkiye (Turkey) to keep providing: Pray for all those affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes is nearing 44,000. Turkish authorities say at least 38,044 people have been killed in the country.

The earthquake has destroyed many Turkish and Syrian lives, homes, and livelihoods. As attention shifts toward regional reconstruction, refugees must be a ...

[recognized](https://academic.oup.com/jrs/article/21/2/166/1621262) as a powerful driver of integration and social cohesion, and the Turkish government has even [acknowledged](https://www.ailevecalisma.gov.tr/media/3725/essn-exit-strategy-1.pdf) [this](https://www.goc.gov.tr/uyum-strateji-belgesi-ve-ulusal-eylem-plani). This is a notable amount considering that the damage caused by the earthquake is [expected](https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/gundemdeprem-bolgesinin-ekonomik-gostergeleri-2050493) to [set back](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/earthquakes-disrupt-turkeys-growth-stretch-budget-erdogan-heads-elections-2023-02-08/) Turkey’s GDP by approximately 2%. [Syrians Barometer](https://www.unhcr.org/tr/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/12/SB-2021-English-01122022.pdf), the percentage of Syrian refugees who said that they would not return to Syria under any circumstances rose from about 17% in 2017 to almost 78% in 2020 before falling to nearly 61% in 2021. Due to heightened social tensions, however, the number of Syrians who are considering [moving to third countries](//www.unhcr.org/tr/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/12/SB-2021-English-01122022.pdf) if the opportunity arises has steadily grown from 34.1% in 2019 to 55% in 2021. [grew](https://www.unhcr.org/tr/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/12/SB-2021-English-01122022.pdf) from less than 49% in 2017 to 82% in 2021. The refugees’ presence has become [politicized](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/21/turkey-immigrants-economy-erdogan/), especially with Turkey’s approaching national elections and the worst [economic crunch](https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/12/turkeys-economic-growth-loses-steam-elections-near) since the current government came to power in 2002. [the summit](https://www.routledge.com/Refugees-Migration-and-Global-Governance-Negotiating-the-Global-Compacts/Ferris-Donato/p/book/9780815388012) put forth the [Global Compact on Refugees](https://www.unhcr.org/5c658aed4.pdf) (GCR), adopted in December 2018, with proposals for improved protection for refugees and responsibility sharing with countries hosting large numbers of refugees. [trade](https://www.nber.org/papers/w10152) [liberalization](https://eml.berkeley.edu/~dromer/papers/AER_June99.pdf) through the reduction of tariffs, the easing or even full elimination of quotas, and the resolution of regulatory obstacles is a key driver of economic growth and employment. Thus, the focus of the international community is shifting to harnessing [the potential](https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/EN_Bridging_Refugee_Protection_and_Development_EN_WEB_FINAL.pdf) [contribution of refugees](https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/crisis-prevention-and-recovery/development-approaches-to-migration-and-displacement.html) to the development of their host communities. [Türkiye Compact](https://www.undp.org/turkiye/publications/feasibility-study-turkiye-compact), proposing that Canada, the European Union, and the United States extend trade concessions to Turkey, enabling private businesses to expand their exports and in return create formal and sustainable employment for both Syrian refugees and locals. [a million mostly Syrian refugees](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/22/one-million-migrants-and-refugees-have-reached-europe-this-year-iom) walked to Europe. [3.5 million Syrian refugees](https://www.goc.gov.tr/gecici-koruma5638) are living in a region with destroyed buildings, hospitals, roads, airports, and factories, not to mention the trauma brought on by tens of thousands of lost lives, leaving them more vulnerable than ever.

After launching a $400m appeal for Syrians, the UN has now appealed for funds for the Turkish relief operation.

Earlier this week, days after the disaster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad granted approval for More than 4,000 fatalities have been reported in the rebel-held northwest, but rescuers say nobody has been found alive there since February 9. The United Nations has appealed for more than $1bn in funds for the Turkish earthquake relief operation, just two days after launching a $400m appeal for Syrians.

The United Nations launched an appeal for $1 billion Thursday to help victims in Turkey of last week's catastrophic earthquake that killed thousands of ...

[Turkey](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/turkey/) have been directly impacted by the disaster, according to Ankara. On Tuesday, the UN launched a $397 million appeal to help quake victims in Syria. [7.8-magnitude tremor](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/turkey-syria-earthquakes/#pager) early on February 6 has killed more than 35,000 people in southeast Turkey, with several thousand more losing their lives across the border in [Syria](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/syria/). The [Antonio Guterres](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/antonio-guterres/) said in a statement that the funds would provide humanitarian relief for three months to 5.2 million people. The United Nations launched an appeal for $1 billion Thursday to help victims in Turkey of last week's catastrophic earthquake that killed thousands of people and left millions more in desperate need of aid.