Earthquakes

The 7.8 magnitude tremor - and subsequent powerful aftershocks - wrought mass destruction across several cities, downing 4,700 buildings. As rescuers race ...

Intrepid Travel has launched an emergency appeal and committed £58,000 (€65,000) to the rescue efforts. The appeal raised AU $45,000 (€29,200) within just 24 hours, and has since more than doubled to €67,000. Private individuals are using the web to chip in. Gaziantep Oğuzeli International Airport (GZT) has closed to all civilian flights, but continues to service rescue flights. [airports](https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/06/22/these-european-airports-have-the-cheapest-7-day-parking-rates) have closed. Airlines have started offering free evacuation flights for survivors of Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey. Travel to these cities and areas like the Aegean coast is operating as normal. As rescuers race against the clock to save survivors from the rubble, travellers have been advised to stay away. Adana Sakirpasa Airport (ADA) and Hatay Airport (HTY) have shut after runway damage. Here’s everything you need to know. [Istanbul](https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/08/03/istanbul-is-a-top-holiday-spot-for-summer-2022-with-hair-transplants-a-major-driver) - are in the west of the country, hundreds of kilometres away. [Turkey](https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/10/12/turkey-is-open-for-european-travellers-here-are-the-five-best-things-to-do) and [Syria](https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/06/22/we-yearn-for-people-to-return-syrian-desert-monastery-reopens-after-a-decade-of-war) on Monday.

Hope is fading for finding survivors after Monday's devastating earthquake. But widely shared footage of volunteers pulling people alive from rubble in ...

Local authorities say 11,000 families in the rebel-held part of Syria are now homeless after the quake. Rescue efforts in northwestern Syria continue as untold numbers of people remain trapped under the rubble. "Rescue efforts are being carried out by poorly equipped civil defense groups and civilians are trying to help," Kelliah said. Hospitals struggle with power outages and fuel shortages. Volunteers and civil defense groups — themselves earthquake survivors — pull a boy out from the rubble alive in rebel-held northwestern Syria. The area is home to some 4 million people displaced by the decade-long Syrian civil war. [U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs](https://reports.unocha.org/en/country/syria/) said in a report. Even before the earthquake, the area was devastated by bombs and poverty. Aid was often hampered by politics and the Syrian government. He said countless buildings there have collapsed. Aftershocks have made buildings still standing unlivable. [went viral](https://twitter.com/molhamteam/status/1622991417193771008) showing volunteer rescuers in a different part of the rebel-held territory saving a family — two girls, a boy and their father — from under the rubble some 40 hours after the quake.

Rescue teams battled snow and freezing temperatures to search for survivors following two earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

As rescuers look for earthquake survivors in Turkey, loved ones in the UK watch the search remotely.

"Some of the villages are blocked off because the roads are damaged, so people from here are going to try and access those areas however they can," Ms Akgoz says. Her mum's cousin, she adds, is now homeless and "trying to survive in their garage" with their children in -3C temperatures. "Unfortunately, in the past few decades, there's been quite a lot of divide among the people of Turkey - whether it's the Turks, Kurds, Alevis or Sunnis. "We drove around London, from south to north, everywhere, on Monday and Tuesday." But now it has arranged an emergency relief trip, with a small group of people flying into the country before driving long-distance to badly affected areas. Mr Erguven explains that he has travelled from his home in Edinburgh down to London to join others from his community in person.

More than three days after the devastating quakes and aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria, what experts consider a "critical" survival window was closing amid ...

special envoy Geir Pedersen had said earlier that people in the Syrian portion of the quake zone needed "more of absolutely everything." The restoration comes after authorities held a meeting with Twitter to "remind Twitter of its obligations" on content takedowns and disinformation." The earthquake's toll has already outstripped that of a 7.8-magnitude quake in Nepal in 2015, when 8,800 died. In Kabul, hundreds of Afghans, including women and children, dashed toward the airport after a false rumor spread that flights were leaving for Turkey to help rescue earthquake victims. Erdogan, who faces a tough battle for reelection in May, acknowledged problems with the emergency response to Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake, but said the winter weather had been a factor. He said the government would distribute 10,000 Turkish lira ($532) to affected families. "It is not possible to be prepared for such a disaster," Erdogan said. Ahmet Tokgoz, a survivor, called for the government to evacuate people from the devastated region. She said machinery only started to move some of the heavy concrete on Wednesday. "The first 72 hours are considered to be critical," said Steven Godby, a natural hazards expert at Nottingham Trent University in England. Teams from more than two dozen countries have joined the local emergency personnel in the effort. At the same time, they said it was too soon to abandon hope.