Earthquake in Turkey Kills Hundreds

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More than 640 people have been killed and thousands more injured in a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria overnight, flattening entire neighbourhoods while many families were still asleep.

Tremors from the deadly quake - which lasted about a minute and could be Turkey's largest ever - were felt as far away as Egypt, Lebanon and the island of Cyprus, while a tsunami warning was briefly issued by authorities in Italy along the country's coast.

Residents fled from their homes in terror in cities across southeast Turkey and northern Syria, taking shelter in cars from a wave of at least 40 aftershocks and collapsing buildings.

Concerns grew for people trapped under the rubble as thousands of rescue workers jumped into action, searching through destroyed buildings for survivors who could be heard calling out from underneath the wreckage.

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The quake was centred north of Gaziantep, Turkey, which is about 60 miles from the Syrian border and has a population of bout 2 million. The region is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees.

It struck at 04:17 am local time (0117 GMT) at a depth of about 11 miles, the US Geological Survey said. A strong 6.7 aftershock rumbled about 10 minutes later. Turkey's own agency said 40 aftershocks were felt.

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management agency said the earthquake killed scores of people in seven Turkish provinces.

Around six hours after the quake struck, Turkey's Vice President confirmed that the death toll had risen 284 and said that 2,323 people had been injured.

Meanwhile, at least 237 have been killed and around 639 injured in Syria, with the victims mostly in Aleppo, Latakia, Tartus and Hama, Syrian officials said.

At least an additional 120 people were said to have been killed in rebel-held areas in Syria, bringing the overall death toll from the massive quake to 641.

The White Helmets said the earthquake has 'resulted in hundreds of injuries, dozens of deaths, and people being stranded in the winter cold' in the region.

The death toll across the affected region is expected to climb as rescue teams work into through Monday to find more people trapped under collapsed buildings.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...quake-buildings-collapse-windows-shatter.html
 

A second earthquake of 7.5+ on the Richter scale struck
a few miles from the first one, the death toll was reported
on the news here as 1,700, but probably more, very sad.

Thank goodness that we don't have them here.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
A second earthquake of 7.5+ on the Richter scale struck
a few miles from the first one, the death toll was reported
on the news here as 1,700, but probably more, very sad.

Thank goodness that we don't have them here.

Mike.
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Well we do have them here.. altho' significant ones are Rare and we do have minor ones of around Richter 2 , but they go un-noticed by most people ... My aunt was killed in an Earthquake we had in Scotland in 1964 when I was just a child. Oddly we /our family lived in the Epicentre of it, and we were living in a prefab, but all that happened to us was that we were tossed out of bed.. and the drawers all fell out..

My elderly aunt who lived a few miles away in the ground floor of tenement block died when the building collapsed like a pack of cards .
 
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.
 
Is the latitude close to California's. Cali just went through a rash of quakes. Wonder if a fault line that covers a large chunk of globe is the same.

Casualty numbers depressing. These might be older cities but one would think the newer construction more earth quake proof.
 
At least 3,000 people are confirmed to have died after two catastrophic earthquakes devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday.

Thousands more fatalities are feared in the coming days after 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude tremors in southeastern Turkey caused buildings to collapse on people as they slept in their beds in the early hours of the morning.

Witnesses describe being 'shaken like a cradle' as the first severe quake struck, the fallout of which has left many people homeless as winter snowstorms and freezing temperatures hit the region.

Victims trapped in collapsed buildings have been pleading for help as rescuers desperately try to free them - with some people even broadcasting on Facebook Live while trapped to try and get aid.

Heartbreaking photos and videos have shown emergency services pulling the bodies of children from the rubble in multiple cities, as well as miraculous rescues with people somehow being carried out alive after the catastrophe.


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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-7-8-magnitude-tremor-kills-1-400-people.html
 
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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OMG... !! how terrifying JuJube.. what happened, how did you get out to safety... ?
 
hollydolly said:
OMG... !! how terrifying JuJube.. what happened, how did you get out to safety... ?
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Down the stairs, thank goodness. We spent the next couple of nights in the field with the rest of the people in our street until we could safely get back in. We had cracks in the walls you could see daylight through (I patched them with toothpaste....lol) and broken windows. Worst mess was a gallon jug of cooking oil and a gallon jug of pancake syrup that had fallen off the shelf in the kitchen, which combined with the jug of milk and everything else breakable that popped out of the refrigerator to cover the entire floor with a porridge of broken glass and oily stickiness. It took days to get that place cleaned up when we got back in.
 
jujube said:
Down the stairs, thank goodness. We spent the next couple of nights in the field with the rest of the people in our street until we could safely get back in. We had cracks in the walls you could see daylight through (I patched them with toothpaste....lol) and broken windows. Worst mess was a gallon jug of cooking oil and a gallon jug of pancake syrup that had fallen off the shelf in the kitchen, which combined with the jug of milk and everything else breakable that popped out of the refrigerator to cover the entire floor with a porridge of broken glass and oily stickiness. It took days to get that place cleaned up when we got back in.
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How awful!
 
jujube said:
Down the stairs, thank goodness. We spent the next couple of nights in the field with the rest of the people in our street until we could safely get back in. We had cracks in the walls you could see daylight through (I patched them with toothpaste....lol) and broken windows. Worst mess was a gallon jug of cooking oil and a gallon jug of pancake syrup that had fallen off the shelf in the kitchen, which combined with the jug of milk and everything else breakable that popped out of the refrigerator to cover the entire floor with a porridge of broken glass and oily stickiness. It took days to get that place cleaned up when we got back in.
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wow.. jeez Jujube.. what a living nightmare ... if you didn't have the sense of humour that you have, you would never have survived half of what you've been through..I'm sure of it..
 
RadishRose said:
I consider 1999 as recent times....

Turkey and Syria hit by magnitude 7.8 quake, the most deadly in Turkey since an earthquake in 1999 that killed 17,500.​

Maybe you mean more recent than that. I also read it was 18,000.
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Terrible loss of lives.. but no I was really thinking of anywhere other than Turkey
 
hollydolly said:
Does anyone know of any earthquake of recent times where more than 3,500 have died ?.. It's getting more and more horrific by the hour
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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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