As a series of deadly earthquakes rippled through eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, some thought that the apocalypse had finally arrived. In spite of the freezing temperatures many survivors worked through the night - using their bare hands to try and remove debris and unearth their family, friends and anyone else sleeping inside when the first massive 7.8-magnitude quake struck. …
The death toll from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks rose to more than 5,000 on Tuesday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of collapsed buildings. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total number of deaths in Turkey had risen to 3,419, with another 20,534 people injured. Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble …
Thousands of people have been killed in both countries as a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and aftershocks cause widespread destruction. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake followed by a magnitude 7.5 tremor killed thousands of people in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, injuring thousands of others and causing widespread destruction. Those aftershocks stretched “a distance of about 100km to 200km all along a …
