Earthquake in Turkey Kills Hundreds

CallMeKate said:
India 2001... more than 20,000. Japan 2011... also more than 20,000. Iran 2003... more than 26,000. Pakistan 2005 and China 2008, both over 87,000. Haiti 2010... some estimates are up to 220,000. Indonesia 2004.... 228,000. I have a feeling today's in Turkey/Syria might rival some of those lower numbers. :cry:
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wow, enormous figures... !!..and yet in all of those places the populations are so huge that those who died wouldn't have made even a slight dent aside from their families broken hearts ... how tragic..
 
I just saw this when streaming GMA. Such a terrible tragedy. They showed rescuers with this little girl who had just been pulled out of a collapsed building. Yet more homeless people on the planet. Each morning, I pray for those who have lost their homes and loved ones to catastrophic events. I will continue to do so.
 

Aftershocks, freezing temperatures and damaged roads are hampering efforts to tackle the enormous humanitarian emergency triggered by Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria, with 7,800 people now confirmed dead and 380,000 others seeking refuge in Turkey alone.

As the scale of the devastation from the initial quake – and a second tremor – became clearer, the Turkish authorities declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces and the World Health Organization warned that the number of fatalities could exceed 20,000.


By Tuesday evening, the death toll had passed 7,800. In Turkey, 5,894 people were confirmed to have died and around 32,000 had been injured. The death toll in Syria rose to 1,932 on Tuesday night.
 
jujube said:
I had just found out that I was pregnant when we were in an earthquake in Turkey in 1970 and I absolutely lost my marbles. My husband had to slap me to get me to get up off the floor and down off the third floor to the street.
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There was a piece on the news here tonight that mentioned rescue crews had recovered a mother and baby from underneath a pile of concrete rubble. The Mom had delivered her baby while buried under the rubble. Umbilical cord was still attached when they were rescued. Baby made it ... Mom did not 😢
 
What is doubly tragic about this is that many who were affected were Syrian refugees who had been oppressed and had fled to the area where the earthquake happened. So very sad. :(
 
RadishRose said:
It's horrific.

I remember back in 1999, 18,000 people were killed in powerful earthquakes that hit northwest Turkey. It's on a major fault line. So many old houses back in 99 had been originally constructed with mud-bricks, which just dissolved into sand and suffocated the people inside.

Hopefully, the death toll now, will not be as high.
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I watched video of those buildings practically disintegrating one after another. The huge death toll is because of crappy construction. I hope this tragedy results in strict laws about modernizing construction and building codes and building inspections.

Do you know if they've found the two missing Australians?
 
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hollydolly said:
Officials confirmed on Wednesday that more than 11,000 people have been killed in Turkey and Syria, with over 40,000 people estimated to be injured, making this the eighth deadliest earthquake this century and the deadliest in over a decade.

The last earthquake to claim as many lives was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan when over 20,000 people died.
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Cuz their houses are made of paper and sticks. I don't mean to be snarky, but places where stuff like this happens should have building codes, for kripes sake.
 
Murrmurr said:
I watched video of those buildings practically disintegrating. The huge death toll is because of crappy construction. I hope this tragedy results in strict laws about modernizing construction and building codes and building inspections.

Do you know if they've found the two missing Australians?
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Don't know but there's Brits missing too.. :( Turkey is a Hugely popular Holiday destination for Brits.. third only to France and Spain
 
16,500 and counting, this is in Turkey alone, Syria are a bit
cagey about everything and their borders are mainly still
closed.

Mike.
 
Almost 30 members of a high school volley ball team who travelled from Turkish occupied Cyrpus to southern Turkey days before the region was struck by an earthquake, are missing and feared dead.

The youngsters and their teachers were staying in the Isias hotel in the centre of Adiyaman when the area was hit by the 7.8-magnitude quake which has so far claimed more than 15,000 lives.

Much of the city centre was demolished with multi-storey buildings pancaking into the ground, trapping thousands of people.

Relatives of those missing said they have not had any contact with the group since Monday's disaster.

The group are from the coastal town of Famagusta, which is in the northern part of Cyprus that was seized by Turkish troops in 1974.

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The survival window for those trapped in the rubble following the catastrophic earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria Monday was rapidly closing Wednesday evening, local time, as crews continued their search for survivors. Wintry conditions this week will only add to the burden those affected by the earthquake face.


Officials confirmed on Wednesday that more than 16,000 people have been killed in Turkey and Syria, with over 62,000 people estimated to be injured, making this the eighth deadliest earthquake this century and the deadliest in over a decade. The last earthquake to claim as many lives was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan when over 20,000 people died.
 
MrPants said:
There was a piece on the news here tonight that mentioned rescue crews had recovered a mother and baby from underneath a pile of concrete rubble. The Mom had delivered her baby while buried under the rubble. Umbilical cord was still attached when they were rescued. Baby made it ... Mom did not 😢
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Yes, the mother, father and I think like 4 siblings all died. The baby was the only survivor. Somehow the mother managed to birth the baby before she died. 😭 That is too sad. They named the baby Miracle.
 
Violent clashes and gunfire between 'rival factions' have halted rescue efforts in Turkey - as 113 arrest warrants were issued over building collapses while a 10-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble.

It comes amid fears that the death toll could reach 50,000, currently passing 28,000 since the earthquake struck on Monday.

Multiple aid organisations were forced to suspend operations due to security fears after gunfire was reported in the disaster zone.

Meanwhile, German rescuers and the Austrian army reported clashes between unnamed armed factions, as people are becoming more violent as food supplies decrease over the coming days.

Officials in Turkey said 113 arrest warrants were issued in connection with the construction of buildings that collapsed in the quake.

This has halted rescue efforts as one 10-year-old child, Cudi, was pulled from the rubble almost a week after the quake.

Video footage shows a rescue team entering a deep and narrow hole before pulling out a young girl whose hair and body was covered in dust and debris.

The 10-year-old is then placed on a bed, covered in a foil blanket and carried to safety.

Rescuers also pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble earlier today.

UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said he expected the death toll to at least double after he arrived in southern Turkey yesterday to assess the quake's damage.

A seven-month-old baby named Hamza was rescued in southern Hatay more than 140 hours after the quake, while Esma Sultan, 13, was saved in Gaziantep.
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