Turkey earthquake

Turkey's disaster management agency said six people were killed and about 300 injured – 18 critically. Two people died in Syria. Live updates.

The previous quakes had killed more than 21,000 people in his province, he said, adding that 80% of homes and businesses needed to be rebuilt or fortified. [Buildings collapse in Syria] [In Syria's rebel-controlled northwest, almost 200 people were injured, mostly cases of broken bones and bruises, according to the White Helmets, the local civil defense organization. "Our teams are working tirelessly to clear rubble & debris, secure damaged buildings, open roads, and retrieve belongings of civilians," the White Helmets tweeted. More than 1 million people were left homeless in Turkey alone by the earlier quakes. Hatay, which borders Syria and the Mediterranean Sea, was hit hard by the Feb. The earthquake, which struck Monday at 8:04 p.m., was centered in the town of Defne in Turkey's Hatay province.

Eight people are dead and more than 250 more injured after another earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after a massive tremblor ...

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Three people have died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: Please include your name, age and location with any submission. "I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet," local resident Muna al-Omar told Reuters news agency, crying as she held her seven-year-old son. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the Are you in the area? She had been in a tent in a park in the city centre when the new earthquakes hit.

A magnitude 6.3 aftershock struck southern Turkey Monday, killing at least three people and injuring hundreds more, according to Turkish and Syrian ...

Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter that 18 of the injured are in serious condition and were transported to Adana and Dörtyol. may God help us,” said Zahir, who lives in a town between the cities of Iskenderun and Antakia, in Turkey’s Hatay province. Officials have been urging the public to stay away from buildings. “We don’t know what to do today – today we will stay in the car and in the tent, we don’t know what will happen till tomorrow,” he told CNN. “Our teams are working to take the injured to hospitals, inspect the affected villages and towns, and remove rubble to open the roads for the ambulances,” the White Helmets said. [Turkey](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/politics/us-relief-turkey-syria-earthquake/index.html) Monday, killing at least three people and injuring hundreds more, according to Turkish and Syrian officials, two weeks after [a massive earthquake](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/middleeast/earthquake-turkey-syria-why-deadly-intl/index.html) killed tens of thousands of people in both countries.

Six people were killed in the latest earthquake to strike the border region of Turkey and Syria, authorities said on Tuesday.

Even before the tremors, opinion polls showed he was under pressure from a cost of living crisis, which could worsen as the disaster has disrupted agricultural production. The area is controlled by insurgents at war with President Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. "If I rebuild here but they can't return, my life will be lost." She now lives in a tent in a park in Antakya after the Feb. 6 quake, with a magnitude 7.8, forced her out of her home.

The toll from two earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday – two weeks after powerful quakes killed more than 47,000 people – has risen to eight, ...

The city is uninhabitable, along with nearby Antakya and Kahramanmaraş. The first 6.3-magnitude quake struck near the Turkish city of Antakya, which was all but destroyed by the 6 February quake and is largely uninhabitable. Most of the injuries were caused by people jumping from structures, or falling as they fled over rubble and walls.

The shock from the quake was felt as far away as Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt, and was followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 tremor. Initially Turkish ...

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The 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck on Monday evening was centred in the Defne district of Turkey's Hatay province.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 865,000 people were living in tents as of Tuesday. Turkish officials warned residents not to go into the remains of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. Dr Cinar and other volunteers initially provided emergency care for people with physical injuries. The UN’s World Food Programme said Monday’s quake frightened employees who were distributing food to hundreds of thousands of people in north-west Syria and Turkey. Now they are seeing more signs of psychological trauma, depression and the stress that comes with a lack of safe housing, winter weather and a pause in education. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, pro-government media said.

The destruction in Turkey and Syria shows the urgent need to invest in emergency preparedness across the region.

To learn more about republishing this content and the associated fees, please fill out this The slow strangulation and besiegement of northwestern Syria has decimated its productive capacities and local economy, rendering the area dependent on external aid. While residents are in immediate need of life-saving aid, over the coming months there must also be a focus on longer-term recovery and reconstruction efforts across northwestern Syria. A promising example is the mud-brick houses built to house internally displaced persons in northwestern Syria. The lack of attention to disaster preparedness in construction practices has been reflected by a failure to enforce building codes, or to retrofit buildings with earthquake-resistant features, resulting in recently constructed buildings being levelled by the earthquake. One such area is the neglected issue of psychosocial support for people in a region where millions have been through 12 [years of war](https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/syria-war), multiple displacements, and severe economic hardships. [experts are calling](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/middleeast/turkey-syria-earthquake-recovery-intl/index.html) for official investigations into what went wrong and why the building codes developed after the 1999 Izmit/Golcuk earthquake were ignored. The complex emergency in this region has been exacerbated by issues such as the [return of Syrian refugees](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/16/syrian-refugees-return-home-from-turkey-after-quake-devastation) from affected areas in Turkey, and the re-displacement of the already displaced. There is considerable anger from the populations of both countries with regards to the lack of disaster preparedness. Recognising the scale of this challenge, we have five forward-looking recommendations on how to respond effectively to the tasks of relief and recovery in the affected regions, in particular northwestern Syria. Since the earthquake occurred, numerous blockages have delayed and prevented the timely delivery of life-saving aid to affected communities, particularly in northwestern Syria. This would involve reaching out to the most vulnerable groups who have been disproportionately affected by the crisis - in particular poor and internally displaced persons (IDP).

The 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck on Monday evening had its epicentre in the Defne district of Turkey's Hatay province – one of the areas worst affected ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 865,000 people were living in tents as of Tuesday. Turkish officials warned residents not to go into the remains of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. Dr Cinar and other volunteers initially provided emergency care for people with physical injuries. The UN’s World Food Programme said Monday’s quake frightened employees who were distributing food to hundreds of thousands of people in north-west Syria and Turkey. Now they are seeing more signs of psychological trauma, depression and the stress that comes with a lack of safe housing, winter weather and a pause in education. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, pro-government media said.

Officials warned victims after the first monster quakes not go into their broken homes. Some people who did so anyway were caught up in the new quake.

The majority of deaths in the massive Feb. Hatay was one of the worst-hit provinces in Turkey in the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck on Feb. The epicenter was in southern Kahramanmaras province. They were caught up in the new quake. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of panic during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, pro-government media outlets said. It was also felt in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and as far away as Egypt, and followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor, and dozens of aftershocks.

The Erdogan government's response to the devastating earthquakes in Turkey has been widely criticised. But how it might affect the forthcoming presidential ...

A sign of this is the Turkish government’s [refusal of Cyprus’s offer](https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/08/earthquake-disaster-turkey-cyprus/) of assistance. [postpone the elections](https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-earthquake-erdogan-opposition-anger-response/), citing emergency relief efforts. It is likely to dramatically alter the country’s internal political trajectory and its involvement in regional conflicts. [Turkish lira collapsed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/13/turkey-financial-crisis-lira-plunges-again-amid-contagion-fears). [annexing Northern Cyprus](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/erdogan-wants-to-annex-northern-cyprus-top-us-senator-says) remains a possibility for Erdogan. Erdogan, who founded the AKP, has been criticised for his increasingly authoritarian tendencies and his consolidation of power. Turkish rock star [Haluk Levent](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2023/02/17/in-turkey-haluk-levent-is-a-rock-star-with-a-big-heart_6016230_117.html) launched his own aid and rescue operations, collecting millions and mobilising thousands of volunteers faster than the government. It was thought an all-powerful president would speed up bureaucracy and place the country on a fast trajectory of progress and development. The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been calling for an Erdogan’s AKP could lose votes in quake zones where Kurdish votes hold the balance of power. [People are now asking](https://www.jagrantv.com/en-show/turkey-earthquake-public-angry-over-turkish-government-about-earthquake-tax-people-asks-about-the-funds-collected-through-tax-rc1038583) what happened to all that money. While this might have seemed a good idea, AFAD’s dependence on government orders [paralysed](https://twitter.com/yirmiucderece/status/1622880238009982976?s=20&t=37EWhfJCmCA_j8YvA4JRAw) its response capability.

Quake likely to further hamper response to Feb. 6 earthquakes, which killed more than 48000 people.

It was felt as far away as Egypt and Lebanon and was followed by a 5.8-magnitude temblor. The new quake of magnitude 6.4 was centered in the district of Defne in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, wedged between the Mediterranean Sea and the border with Syria. [another strong earthquake](https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-earthquake-strikes-southern-turkey-d914acbf?mod=article_inline) that rattled parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday night, just two weeks after a [pair of quakes unleashed the worst destruction](https://www.wsj.com/articles/earthquake-fallout-raises-political-stakes-in-turkeys-election-year-f921ae11?mod=article_inline) in the region in decades.

Turkey's disaster management authority, AFAD, said the new quake killed six people and injured 294 others, including 18 who were in critical condition.

6 quake, which was followed by a magnitude 7.5 temblor nine hours later, were in Turkey, where at least 42,310 people died, according to the disaster management agency. After the first earthquake, student Ada Yildirim boarded a bus to go help in Hatay province, where her family lives. “When we go in the streets, there is only rubble and heavy machinery. Turkish officials warned residents not to go into the remains of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 865,000 people were living in tents as of Tuesday. There were small children in the house. While his large family’s home withstood the quake earlier in the month, it was damaged on Monday. 6 magnitude [7.8 quake](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/thousands-dead-in-turkey-and-syria-after-7-8-magnitude-earthquake) that killed nearly 46,000 people in the two countries. The White Helmets, northwest Syria’s civil defense organization, said about 190 people suffered injuries in rebel-held areas and that several flimsy buildings collapsed but there were no reports of anyone trapped under the debris. Turkey’s disaster management authority, AFAD, said the new quake killed six people and injured 294 others, including 18 who were in critical condition. “The electricity went and there were screams everywhere. A magnitude 5.8 quake followed, along with dozens of aftershocks.