Earthquakes

As rescuers still pulled some from the rubble, Turkish officials detained or issued warrants for those allegedly involved in constructing buildings that ...

The death toll in Syria's northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the rescue worker group the White Helmets. The man, Mustafa Sarigul, appeared to be unscathed as he was being transported on a stretcher to an ambulance, 149 hours after the first quakes, private NTV television reported. During a tour of quake-damaged cities Saturday, Erdogan said a disaster of this scope was rare, and again referred to it as the "disaster of the century." An exhausted rescuer removed his surgical mask and took deep breaths as a group of women could be heard crying in joy. Rescuers, including crews from other countries, continued to probe the rubble in hope of finding additional survivors who could yet beat the increasingly long odds. A building contractor was detained by authorities on Friday at Istanbul airport before he could board a flight out of the country.

A triple junction is a point where three tectonic plates meet and interact. These are important areas of geological activity and can be sites of significant ...

Asked what could happen if a large-scale earthquake event, like the one in Turkiye, strikes the Himalayas, he said the destructive potential of an earthquake depends on several factors, including depth and proximity to populated areas. A strict monitoring mechanism is required for the new buildings and a massive exercise is needed to map out each and every existing building. Now, India is increasing the resilience of communities to enable people to rebound after a disaster. Around 11 per cent of the country' area falls in Zone V, 18 per cent in Zone IV and 30 per cent in Zone III and the remaining in Zone II. On India's disaster preparedness and response, experts said the country has a dedicated, well-equipped and trained force -- the NDRF -- which has the wherewithal to reach the right place at the right time. He added that the impact of a large-scale earthquake can be reduced if people and institutions strictly comply with the bylaws and codes to build resilient structures. According to experts, the resonant frequency of a building can play a critical role in determining the level of damage it experiences during an earthquake. Hence, the structures collapsed like a pack of cards," Mishra said. One of them is where the Arabian Plate, the African Plate and the Anatolian Plate meet. The breaking of this junction led to the massive earthquake that devastated Turkiye and Syria, leaving more than 25,000 dead, he said. There are a few earthquakes of magnitude 4 and 5 as well," said OP Mishra, director at the Ministry of Earth Sciences' National Centre for Seismology. "The triple junction on India's western side near the border with Pakistan is continuously releasing stress due to the occurrence of micro-level earthquakes.

The death toll from Monday's quakes stood at 28191 on Sunday morning, with more than 80000 others injured, and is certain to rise.

The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Overnight, a child was also freed in the town of Nizip, in Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, while a 32-year woman, was rescued from the ruins of an eight-storey building in the city of Antakya. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. A six-year-old boy was removed from the debris of his home in Adiyaman city on Sunday, 151 hours after the quake. During a tour of quake-damaged cities on Saturday, he said a disaster on this scale is rare, and again referred to it as the “disaster of the century”. He was the contractor of a luxury 12-storey building in the historic city of Antakya, in Hatay province, the collapse of which left an untold number of dead.

I covered the 1993 Latur earthquake in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, the 2001 Bhuj earthquake in nearby Gujarat and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Similarly, the Bhuj earthquake in 2001, which killed 20,000 on the Indian side and 18 on the Pakistani side, affected the Bhuj and Kutch districts and was limited to a distance of 85 km (53 mi). The most affected region was the adjacent administrative block of Uri, directly along the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Jammu and Kashmir into areas controlled by India and Pakistan. The journey from the Srinagar airport to my hometown of Sopore in North Kashmir, which was partially affected, was difficult as the roads had collapsed in many places. Since cell phones had just been introduced in the region and were limited only to the capital, Srinagar, there was no communication from the affected area in North Kashmir. Having covered three earthquake disasters in the past 30 years as a reporter, I found the Feb.

Vice President Fuat Oktay said late on Saturday that at least 24617 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye last...

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So far more than 28,000 people have been confirmed dead following the huge quakes a week ago. But rescuers are still uncovering survivors from the huge debris ...

So far more than 28,000 people have been confirmed dead following the huge quakes a week ago. But rescuers are still uncovering survivors from the huge debris in many towns and cities. There are fears that more than 50,000 people have died as a result of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

Unrest in southern Turkey has hampered rescue efforts in several places after Monday's deadly earthquake, three rescue groups said, quoted by the BBC.

The number of victims in Turkey and Syria now stands at a total of 28,191. The death toll in Turkey and Syria has exceeded 28,000, and hopes of finding more survivors are dwindling despite several cases described as miracles. From Beirut, humanitarian aid will be delivered by Lebanese Red Cross convoy to neighboring Syria. According to the UN, at least 870,000 people need hot food in Turkey and Syria. In Syria alone, up to 5.3 million people may be without a roof over their heads because of the earthquake, BTA notes. Over 28,000 Confirmed Deaths after the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Turkish officials reportedly issued arrest warrants or detained about 130 people who were allegedly involved in some illegal construction methods six days after ...

](https://apnews.com/article/2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-government-business-658d897fe02316c474a8cc8078b690a3?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_02)Another contractor was reportedly detained Friday at Istanbul airport prior to boarding a flight out of Turkey. He was allegedly the contractor of a luxury 12-story building in Antakya and its collapse has left many dead but the number is currently unknown. The bureaus will help gather evidence, instruct experts, and check building permits, and occupation permits. The building samples include materials that were used in the construction of the buildings. [the AP](https://apnews.com/article/2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-government-business-658d897fe02316c474a8cc8078b690a3?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_02). [The Associated Press.](https://apnews.com/article/2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-government-business-658d897fe02316c474a8cc8078b690a3?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_02)

Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble as Turkey sought to maintain order across the disaster zone, concerns over looting grew and the government ...

The European Union's envoy to Syria on Sunday urged authorities in Damascus to "engage in good faith" with aid workers. "We cannot intervene much, as most of the looters carry knives." He has It was the deadliest quake in Turkey since 1939. "They rightly feel abandoned," Griffiths said, adding that he was focused on addressing that swiftly. [looters](/world/middle-east/looting-hygiene-worries-add-rescuers-burden-turkey-2023-02-11/) in the city of Antakya.

The Syrian regime's Health Ministry reported at least 1,408 fatalities in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, and Tartus, with another 2,341 people wounded.

ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — When war broke out in Ukraine, Aydin Sisman's relatives there fled to the ancient city of Antakya, in a southeastern corner of Turkey ...

“We took her out from under the destruction, from under the rocks. Say hi to your grandfather and your uncle and everyone,” he cried. “Between the destruction and the rubble, we have nothing now. “Say hi to your dad and give him my wishes. I saw bodies and we pulled them out from under the rubble. He came to Antakya in May from a refugee camp along the Turkish-Syrian border. Naziha Al-Ahmad, a mother of four, was pulled dead from the rubble of their new home. “We have Ukrainian guests who fled the war, and they are also lying inside. “We worked for three days to get her out.” Abu Shaar said people are searching for loved ones and many have refused to leave Antakya even though the quake has left the city with no inhabitable structures, no electricity, water or heating. They included the body of Khaled Qazqouz’s 5-year-old niece, Tasneem Qazqouz. There are at least 3.6 million Syrians who have fled their homeland’s war since 2011, arriving in trickles or en masse, sometimes overrunning the border, to seek safety from punishing bombardments, chemical attacks and starvation.

At least 2,166 people died and more than 2,950 others were injured in areas controlled by the opposition in northwestern Syria, according to the Syrian Civil ...

At least 2,166 people died and more than 2,950 others were injured in areas controlled by the opposition in northwestern Syria, according to the Syrian Civil Defense. The Syrian regime's Health Ministry reported at least 1,387 fatalities in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama, and Tartus, with another 2,326 people wounded. At least 3,553 people have been killed and thousands injured in Syria from a series of powerful earthquakes centered in southern Turkiye that jolted the wider region early on Monday, according to figures compiled on Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency.

Monday will mark one week since deadly earthquakes hit Türkiye's southern regions; but even as the survival window appears to be narrowing, more people...

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The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and northwestern Syria has gone past 29,000 as rescue efforts continue. The number of deaths in Turkey rose to ...

Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors.

He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and was home to 13.5 million people in Turkey. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. His lawyer suggested the public was looking for a scapegoat. A building contractor was detained by authorities on Friday at Istanbul airport before he could board a flight out of the country. “We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria. The child was wrapped in a space blanket and put into an ambulance. The woman asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Rescue workers pulled out a man in Antakya, hours after hearing voices from beneath the rubble. 6 rose to 33,179 on Sunday and was certain to keep increasing as search teams locate more bodies in the rubble. Thermal cameras were used to probe the piles of concrete and metal, while rescuers demanded silence so that they could hear the voices of the trapped. Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, posted a video of a young girl in a navy blue jumper who was rescued. The pair were reportedly on their way to Georgia.

UN emergency relief coordinator says he expects tens of thousands more deaths after 'worst event in 100 years in this region'

UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths said the death toll from the earthquake is likely to “more than double”, adding that he expected tens of thousands more deaths. “It is absolutely unfair to be accused of not providing aid, when actually we have constantly been doing exactly that for over a decade and we are doing so much more even during the earthquake crisis,” Dan Stoenescu told Reuters. The Agence France-Presse has reported there has been 3,553 death in Syria. So it is in Syria where the real problems lie.” It is in Syria that the international community is far more stretched. He was pulled from the rubble in Hatay, south Turkey. And we are doing that as fast as we possibly can.” I can’t tell you precisely when that will be because it’s not clear how quickly the economy is going to recover,” he says. We are here to make sure that all children of course, are safe and protected and their families as well.” Of course, in the long term, there will be a second disaster, which is the survival of those who managed to get out of the rubble, supporting them and supporting children in accessing for example, education, with all the schools closed. Our baby was sent to Adana by helicopter ambulance for treatment.” In the tweet, he said: “The first medical intervention for our little girl, who was rescued from the rubble in the 150th hour, was performed in our Hatay Field Hospital.

Stricter regulations were promised after quake two decades ago, but poor construction has played major role in latest disaster.

The Turkish government has periodically held so-called “construction amnesties” since the 1960s, in which construction companies and building owners have had lacking safety certification waived for a fee – a policy that is believed to have generated billions of lira. It is true that we were not expecting an earthquake of this scale, in this area, so it was unforeseen in that respect. “The death toll would have been greatly reduced, as buildings that are designed to withstand earthquakes are less likely to collapse. Proper enforcement of safety codes would have meant a “completely different picture now”, said Hakan Süleyman, a researcher in the department of earthquake engineering at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University. In the aftermath, authorities promised stricter building regulations and introduced an “earthquake tax” aimed at improving preparedness in a country that sits on two major geological faultlines. On paper, Turkish building safety standards are among the best in the world, and they are regularly updated with specific rules for earthquake-prone regions.

The death toll from Monday's quakes stood at 33179 on Sunday morning, with more than 92000 others injured.

The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Overnight, a child was also freed in the town of Nizip, in Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, while a 32-year woman, was rescued from the ruins of an eight-storey building in the city of Antakya. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. A six-year-old boy was removed from the debris of his home in Adiyaman city on Sunday, 151 hours after the quake. On Sunday, authorities in the province of Gaziantep arrested two people who are suspected of having cut down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkish justice minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes.

Istanbul, Sunday, 12 February - In Türkiye, local businesses are on the frontlines of emergency relief operations being organized in the immediate aftermath ...

The “As we have experienced in the past, the economies of disaster areas are seriously affected and it is difficult for them to recover,” said Arda Batu, Secretary-General of TÜRKONFED. The assistance provided by local companies on the ground, who have transportation and logistics capacities in the affected regions, has been crucial. - The CBi in Türkiye is collecting donations from individuals and businesses and responding to urgent requests from emergency responders for equipment, resources, and logistical and transportation support. In addition, CBi Member Networks from all over the world are providing additional in-kind support and deploying search and rescue experts.

Volunteers come together for a clothing drive, with donations to be sent to north-west Syria.

If you've got the means to help and the capability to help, I think you should do." Thanking people in Wales for their support, he said: "I would like to say to the whole Welsh community, every little helps. "I think I am as prepared as I can be. She had to leave her house, it has been demolished by the earthquake. He added: "This region is not under the regime control in Syria, and it is not under the authority of the Turkish government, so these guys are stuck in between. Also the geographical nature is really very complex, mountains and hills.

The death toll from Monday's quakes stood at 33179 on Sunday afternoon, with more than 92000 others injured.

The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Overnight, a child was also freed in the town of Nizip, in Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, while a 32-year woman, was rescued from the ruins of an eight-storey building in the city of Antakya. The picture is less clear of the plight across the border in Syria. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. In Kahramanmaras, near the epicentre of the first 7.8 quake that struck early on Monday morning, efforts were under way to reach a survivor detected by sniffer dogs beneath a now-flattened seven-storey building, NTV reported. He was the contractor of a luxury 12-storey building in the historic city of Antakya, in Hatay province, the collapse of which left an untold number of dead. A six-year-old boy was removed from the debris of his home in Adiyaman city on Sunday, 151 hours after the quake. During a tour of quake-damaged cities on Saturday, he said a disaster on this scale is rare, and again referred to it as the “disaster of the century”. On Sunday, authorities in the province of Gaziantep arrested two people who are suspected of having cut down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkish justice minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart in south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria rose to 33,179 and was certain to increase as search teams find more bodies. Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful February 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble on Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that killed more than 33,000 people.

A 7.8-magnitude quake erased thousands of buildings across 10 Turkish cities, devastating entire villages across the border in northern Syria as well. The death ...

As a Syrian displaced by the war as a teenager, he empathises with what people in his adopted home are feeling these days. His wife decided to spend her birthday, which occurred on Sunday, helping those in need. I started a couple of fires as we all stood together, waiting for the ground to stop shaking.” “It’s our moral duty to offer anything we can to support each other.” “I immediately came to my bar as soon as I saw all those people in the street looking for a safe ground-floor place,” says Ferdi Haydargil, 44, as he serves some hot cups of tea. “If we didn’t die in the quake, we might die of hunger or cold,” says Ahmet, 64, who preferred not to share his last name, as he picked up a pot of hot noodles from the restaurant.

The death toll from Monday's quakes stood at 33179 on Sunday morning, with more than 92000 others injured.

The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. Overnight, a child was also freed in the town of Nizip, in Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, while a 32-year woman, was rescued from the ruins of an eight-storey building in the city of Antakya. The picture is less clear of the plight across the border in Syria. The efforts of a team of Italian and Turkish rescuers also paid off when they removed a 35-year-old man from the wreckage in the hard-hit city of Antakya. In Kahramanmaras, near the epicentre of the first 7.8 quake that struck early on Monday morning, efforts were under way to reach a survivor detected by sniffer dogs beneath a now-flattened seven-storey building, NTV reported. He was the contractor of a luxury 12-storey building in the historic city of Antakya, in Hatay province, the collapse of which left an untold number of dead. A six-year-old boy was removed from the debris of his home in Adiyaman city on Sunday, 151 hours after the quake. During a tour of quake-damaged cities on Saturday, he said a disaster on this scale is rare, and again referred to it as the “disaster of the century”. On Sunday, authorities in the province of Gaziantep arrested two people who are suspected of having cut down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkish justice minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart in south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria rose to 33,179 and was certain to increase as search teams find more bodies. Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful February 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble on Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that killed more than 33,000 people.

Rescue crews in Turkey and Syria searched for signs of life in freezing temperatures as survivors expressed frustration about rescue efforts. Updates.

The Syrian civil war has been going on for now a dozen years," Miliband told ABC, adding, "The world has moved on. ["There are many stories of people surviving well past the seven-day mark," Lee added. Murathan Adil was able to retrieve the device, belonging to a woman who gave her name as Mama Busra, but the battery was dead. He warned Syrians are in "grave danger of a secondary crisis" because aid is largely blocked across the Turkey-Syria border, and only one humanitarian crossing point is open. There were so few rescue teams that they could only intervene in places they were sure there were people alive," she said. But, frankly, that’s an indirect route and it’s caught up in politics," he told the outlet. "On the Syrian side of the border, it’s people who’ve frankly been abandoned over the last 10 years." Miliband called on the U.N. You’ve got a massive aid effort underway," David Miliband, president and CEO of the organization, told ABC. Refugee Agency said, and the number of fatalities in both countries continues to rise. ►Two women, one of them pregnant, were rescued more than 155 hours after the first quake, according to broadcast reports in Turkey. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said they were Burak and Kimberly Firik and their sons, ages 1 and 2.

Just six days after the quakes, Turkish officials detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people allegedly involved in building construction.

The death toll in Syria's northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the rescue worker group the White Helmets. Backhoes and bulldozers dug pits in the field as trucks and ambulances loaded with black body bags arrived continuously. The woman, a teacher named Meltem, asked for tea as soon as she emerged, according to NTV. The man, Mustafa Sarigul, appeared to be unscathed as he was being transported on a stretcher to an ambulance, 149 hours after the first quakes, private NTV television reported. During a tour of quake-damaged cities Saturday, Erdogan said a disaster of this scope was rare, and again referred to it as the "disaster of the century." An exhausted rescuer removed his surgical mask and took deep breaths as a group of women could be heard crying in joy. Rescuers, including crews from other countries, continued to probe the rubble in hope of finding additional survivors who could yet beat the increasingly long odds. "Good news at the 150th hour. A building contractor was detained by authorities on Friday at Istanbul airport before he could board a flight out of the country. He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and was home to 13.5 million people in Turkey. A day earlier, Turkey's Justice Ministry announced the planned establishment of "Earthquake Crimes Investigation" bureaus. Turkey's justice minister has vowed to punish anyone responsible, and prosecutors have begun gathering samples of buildings for evidence on materials used in constructions.

A week after two 7.8- and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes levelled swathes of southern Turkey and northern Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are sleeping in ...

But I went to İskenderun two days ago to attend a funeral of a relative of mine who died in the earthquake. We had to go back to our house,” Ersoy said. “We were not be able to stay in tents. The UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said he expected the death toll to at least double. We had nowhere to go. We just cannot afford to relocate. He was now living in a tent with his family in Çukurova. “That is a huge number and comes to a population already suffering mass displacement.” The vice-president, Fuat Oktay, said more than 1 million people were living in tent encampments. We have access to food, toilet, electricity. Those whose homes were destroyed or who did not know if it was safe to return would be housed in hotels, he said. They offered food and blankets to everyone.

Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble today, nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities ...

Several Arab countries have provided support to Mr Assad in the quake's aftermath. Mr Erdogan has acknowledged problems, such as the challenge of delivering aid despite damaged transport links, but said the situation had been brought under control. Traffic occasionally halted as rescuers called for silence to detect signs of remaining life under the ruins. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. It was the deadliest quake in Turkey since 1939. A HTS source in Idlib said the group would not allow any shipments from government-held areas and that aid would be coming in from Turkey to the north.

Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more ...

He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and home to 13.5 million people. “We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria. The detentions could help direct public anger toward builders and contractors, deflecting it from local and state officials who allowed apparently substandard construction to proceed. The hundreds of graves, no more than 3 feet (a meter) apart, were marked with simple wooden planks. Rescuers in hard-hit Antakya, in Hatay province, pulled out a man from the rubble after hearing voices. Italian and Turkish rescuers found a 35-year-old man in Antakya who appeared unscathed, private NTV television reported. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posted a video of a young girl in a navy blue jumper who was rescued. Among those facing scrutiny were two people arrested in Gaziantep province on suspicion of cutting down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. An exhausted rescuer removed his surgical mask and took deep breaths as a group of women cried in joy. Rescuers continued search efforts in hope of finding more survivors who could yet beat the increasingly long odds. ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb.

Turkey's earthquake disaster looks set to cost the country's economy $84bn and cause the nation a death toll in excess of 72000, according to ...

It is [expected](https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2022/October/weo-report?c=186,&s=NGDPD,&sy=2011&ey=2027&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1) to report a figure of around $800-850bn for 2023. [reported](https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Quarterly-Gross-Domestic-Product-Quarter-III:-July---September,-2022-45551&dil=2) GDP of around $800bn for 2021. Turkonfed expects Turkey’s budget deficit will rise to 5.4% of GDP. A loss of around $7bn is consequently expected, representing a 3% share of Turkey’s overall exports of $254bn in 2022. - Hatay road For what they're worth, the figures on the consequences of last week’s disaster come via comparisons with the August 17 quake. So much enthusiasm for highly dubious figures that make it on to paper and into headlines, perhaps not enough attention to the real costs, the realities people face, out there. - Gaziantep road - Hatay – Reyhanli road By the evening of February 12, 29,605 earthquake deaths had been recorded in southern Turkey and 3,574 in northern Syria. They will be recorded as “missing.” Unregistered migrants in the region are an even more complicated case. Experts say the survival rate of people trapped after an earthquake is 74% within 24 hours but just 6% by the fifth day.

Bangor charity K9 Search & Rescue NI describes challenging search conditions in quake-hit Turkey.

"It is certainly physically dangerous. "We're all in tents. It's incredibly cold." "The dogs that we're using only find live people. "Obviously people are at the rubble piles and they are extremely worried about their family members and friends that are buried in there, and there have been some clashes at the scene." "And they're still trying and holding out for hope for us to pull their loved ones out of the collapsed buildings."

Situation Report in English on Türkiye and 1 other country about Food and Nutrition, Health, Earthquake, Flood and more; published on 12 Feb 2023 by IBC.

Likewise in war-torn Northwest Syria the UN says up to 5.3 million people are homeless and nearly 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot food in both Türkiye and Syria. Due to the damaged crossing, access was delayed in providing cross-border aid in the first days of the emergency. Just 5% of the impacted sites and towns in opposition-controlled areas of Northwest Syria are being covered by search-and-rescue operations, according to the UN. Ninety percent of the population in Northwest Syria already depended on humanitarianKarahmanmaras, Adiyaman, and Malatya. Teams and local governance have announced the cease of search and rescue in Kilis, Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, and in Northwest Syria. According to Türkiye’s Health, Emergency and Coordination Center (SAKOM) 29,605 people lost their lives in Türkiye, while Salvation Government authority of Syria confirmed 4,574 dead, including 3,160 in the Northwest.

Rescuers have continued to pull out more survivors from the rubble in Turkey and Syria as the death toll from last week's earthquakes topped 33,000.

Nearly 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot food in Turkey and Syria. The death toll in Syria has not been updated for two days. “People in the affected areas are counting on us.” “It’s time to move with urgency and purpose.” “I gave her water to drink, I cleared her face of rubble. For hours, Boncuk frantically searched for someone in the devastated city of Antakya to help him free her, reported The Associated Press news agency. Her remains were finally removed Sunday, nearly a week after the building collapsed. “For the first few days, everybody looted supermarkets because they needed to. “Police and soldiers who live here went through the same things as we did. Business owners in a central district of Turkey’s Antakya city have emptied their shops to prevent their merchandise from being stolen by looters, according to the Reuters news agency. The market across the street, shoe stores … [@RTErdogan](https://twitter.com/RTErdogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)، واطلعنا في هذه الزيارة على آخر تداعيات كارثة الزلزال المدمر الذي ضرب تركيا وسوريا، ونؤكد على دعمنا وتضامننا مع الأشقاء، وعلى المساهمة في الجهود المبذولة للتخفيف من هذه الكارثة.

Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors.

In New York City, mourners gathered Saturday at a mosque to remember a family of four from the borough of Queens who were killed while visiting relatives in Turkey. Erdogan acknowledged the initial response was hampered by the damage, with the worst-affected area 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and home to 13.5 million. Turkey's Justice Ministry announced the establishment of Earthquake Crimes Investigation bureaus to identify contractors and others responsible for building works. Rescuers in Antakya, elsewhere in Hatay province, pulled a man in his late 20s or 30s from the rubble, saying he was one of nine trapped in the building. Similar rescues in the province saved two other women, one of them pregnant, according to broadcasters TRT and HaberTurk. "We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria. Among those facing scrutiny were two people arrested in Gaziantep province on suspicion of cutting down columns to make extra room in a building that collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Italian and Turkish rescuers found a 35-year-old man in Antakya who appeared unscathed, private NTV television reported. aid convoy sent to northwestern Syria through government-held areas was postponed due to obstruction from Hay'at Tahrir al Sham, an al-Qaida affiliated group ruling Idlib province, a U.N. I did everything according to the rules." While the quakes were powerful, many in Turkey Two contractors held responsible for the destruction of buildings in Adiyaman were arrested Sunday at Istanbul Airport while trying to leave the country, the private DHA news agency and other media reported.

Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful February 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more ...

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were under investigation for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. Rescue workers in Kahramanmaras had also made contact with three survivors, believed to be a mother, daughter and baby, in the ruins of a building. A United Nations spokesperson on Sunday said earthquake aid from government-held parts of Syria into opposition-controlled territory has been held up by "approval issues" with one hardline group. Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful February 6 earthquakes as rescuers found one more survivor in the rubble on Monday, a 40-year-old woman, in the disaster that killed over 33,000 people, with the UN warning that the final death toll could rise by "double or more". [Syria](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/syria/) as of February 12 following the deadly earthquake and aftershocks in neighbouring Turkey, the UN office for humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Monday. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).

Boncuk directed his anger at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, especially because she seemed so close to rescue but no one came. Her remains were finally removed ...

"People in the affected areas are counting on us," she said in a statement. He had pulled the bodies of his aunt and her husband from beneath the rubble hours after the quake. Abdel-Haseeb Abdel-Raheem sifted through the rubble of his aunt's destroyed four-story building in the town of Atareb in opposition-run northern Aleppo. This is the time to unite behind the common effort to support the Syrian people," said Geir Pedersen, the U.N. aid sent from Turkey to Syria is only authorized to enter via the Bab al-Hawa crossing, and logistics were complicated by pressure on the roads, many of them destroyed by the quake. While technically, international aid can also be sent from Syrian government-held areas to rebel-held areas in the northwest, that route brings its own set of hurdles and was at best a trickle. Two German aid groups and the Austrian Armed Forces temporarily interrupted their rescue work in the Hatay region citing fears for the safety of their staff. We're even checking the ones that are torn to pieces," she said of herself and other grief-stricken relatives. Dozens of newly displaced families gathered for hot meals from local volunteers and the local opposition-run government. He said the odds of survival for people trapped in wreckage fall dramatically after five days, and is near zero after nine days, although there have been exceptions. Rescuers pulled a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of a 5-story building in the town of Islahiye, in Gaziantep province Monday. They said hundreds were still inside but complained the effort to free them had been slow and not serious.