Earthquakes

Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, Turkey and Harem, Syria – While rescuers continue to work frantically to save survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings ...

We came back today and pulled out the husband, who is my cousin,” he said. “Rescue workers have told us that as they have no longer heard any voices or sounds coming from under the rubble,” Dekker said. [here.](/news/2023/2/8/how-to-donate-to-turkey-and-syria-earthquake-disaster-response) “The conditions are clear to see. “Of course, there are shortcomings,” he said. “Unfortunately, since last night, no one came out of the rubble alive,” he said.

More than three days after the devastating quakes and aftershocks hit Turkey and Syria, what experts consider a "critical" survival window was closing amid ...

special envoy Geir Pedersen had said earlier that people in the Syrian portion of the quake zone needed "more of absolutely everything." The restoration comes after authorities held a meeting with Twitter to "remind Twitter of its obligations" on content takedowns and disinformation." The earthquake's toll has already outstripped that of a 7.8-magnitude quake in Nepal in 2015, when 8,800 died. In Kabul, hundreds of Afghans, including women and children, dashed toward the airport after a false rumor spread that flights were leaving for Turkey to help rescue earthquake victims. Erdogan, who faces a tough battle for reelection in May, acknowledged problems with the emergency response to Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake, but said the winter weather had been a factor. He said the government would distribute 10,000 Turkish lira ($532) to affected families. "It is not possible to be prepared for such a disaster," Erdogan said. Ahmet Tokgoz, a survivor, called for the government to evacuate people from the devastated region. She said machinery only started to move some of the heavy concrete on Wednesday. "The first 72 hours are considered to be critical," said Steven Godby, a natural hazards expert at Nottingham Trent University in England. Teams from more than two dozen countries have joined the local emergency personnel in the effort. At the same time, they said it was too soon to abandon hope.

The death toll from Monday's catastrophic earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria surpassed 15000 on Thursday morning, authorities said.

We just hope that the political considerations will get out of the way and let us do our job,” he said. Cold weather adds urgency to their work, making the need to provide shelter to survivors a matter of life and death. The White Helmets, a Western-funded group operating in parts of Syria that are not controlled by Damascus, has put the figure at more than 1,900.

Three bodies have been found as rescuers in Turkey search a collapsed hotel for a group of school volleyball players following Monday's earthquakes.

Another woman said her niece, 12-year-old Nehir, had been staying with her in Adiyaman, but had gone to the hotel on the day of the earthquake to join up with friends. Some 170 people - including relatives and rescuers - have travelled to the wreckage from Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus. The bodies of two teachers and a student were recovered from the Isias Hotel in Adiyaman, said officials in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus.

Fossil fuel companies bear significant responsibility for the climate emergency yet enjoy near-total impunity. At the same time, they are consistently reaping ...

[backed the UK-based Victoria Oil & Gas](https://litigationfinanceinsider.com/therium-backs-claim-against-republic-of-kazakhstan/) against the Republic of Kazakhstan on the grounds that Astana breached an agreement with the company after kicking it out of the country to take over its own oil field. Instead of being sued by them, governments should consider whether and how to hold fossil fuel firms liable for the damages their operations have caused to countless victims worldwide. Meanwhile, dozens of US states are in the process of enacting [“critical infrastructure” legislation](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/anti-protest-laws-threaten-indigenous-and-climate-movements), increasing criminal penalties against activists protesting pipelines that will wreck the planet. Professor İbrahim Özdemir is a UN advisor and an ecologist teaching at Üsküdar University. The potential proceeds should be then invested in accelerating net zero. Fossil fuel companies bear significant responsibility for the climate emergency yet enjoy near-total impunity. [defunct colonial-era treaty](https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2022/07/20/the-heirs-of-a-sultanate-are-using-international-law-to-make-malaysia-pay/) with the British Crown. Victoria Oil & Gas [lost the case](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/978672/victoria-oil-gas-under-threat-as-tribunal-orders-cameroon-unit-to-pay-us-12-1mln-978672.html). [claimants raise funds from outside investors](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-lawsuits-finance-insight-idUSKCN1OK0EP) who take the lion's share of the proceeds. [triggering earthquakes in Alaska](https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/glacier_quakes.html#:~:text=That%27s%20because%20as%20glaciers%20melt,friction%20needed%20to%20make%20earthquakes.) in the last decades. [that could lead to more earthquakes,](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/melting-glaciers-are-wreaking-havoc-earths-crust-180960226/) awaken volcanoes and even affect the movement of the Earth’s axis. [pointed out back in 2012](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/environment/climate-change-trigger-earthquakes-tsunamis-volcanic-eruptions/).

Hope is fading for finding survivors after Monday's devastating earthquake. But widely shared footage of volunteers pulling people alive from rubble in ...

Local authorities say 11,000 families in the rebel-held part of Syria are now homeless after the quake. Rescue efforts in northwestern Syria continue as untold numbers of people remain trapped under the rubble. "Rescue efforts are being carried out by poorly equipped civil defense groups and civilians are trying to help," Kelliah said. Hospitals struggle with power outages and fuel shortages. Volunteers and civil defense groups — themselves earthquake survivors — pull a boy out from the rubble alive in rebel-held northwestern Syria. The area is home to some 4 million people displaced by the decade-long Syrian civil war. [U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs](https://reports.unocha.org/en/country/syria/) said in a report. Even before the earthquake, the area was devastated by bombs and poverty. Aid was often hampered by politics and the Syrian government. He said countless buildings there have collapsed. Aftershocks have made buildings still standing unlivable. [went viral](https://twitter.com/molhamteam/status/1622991417193771008) showing volunteer rescuers in a different part of the rebel-held territory saving a family — two girls, a boy and their father — from under the rubble some 40 hours after the quake.

As rescuers look for earthquake survivors in Turkey, loved ones in the UK watch the search remotely.

"Some of the villages are blocked off because the roads are damaged, so people from here are going to try and access those areas however they can," Ms Akgoz says. Her mum's cousin, she adds, is now homeless and "trying to survive in their garage" with their children in -3C temperatures. "Unfortunately, in the past few decades, there's been quite a lot of divide among the people of Turkey - whether it's the Turks, Kurds, Alevis or Sunnis. "We drove around London, from south to north, everywhere, on Monday and Tuesday." But now it has arranged an emergency relief trip, with a small group of people flying into the country before driving long-distance to badly affected areas. Mr Erguven explains that he has travelled from his home in Edinburgh down to London to join others from his community in person.

Ozge Ovun-Sert evacuated her home in a 1999 Turkish earthquake - now she's raising cash for the latest tragedy.

The group has deployed several teams to offer front-line medical assistance in Turkey and to coordinate with partners in Syria. But the community has been quick to mobilise, she said. Thousands of buildings have been reduced to rubble and survivors were still being pulled from the wreckage more than 48 hours after the disaster. "We've been all emotionally tired for the past 11 years," she said. This is ugly." "But then I'm telling myself 'Hey, focus on what you can do from here, because those people need this.'"

News and Press Release in English on Syrian Arab Republic and 1 other country about Food and Nutrition, Health, Earthquake and more; published on 9 Feb 2023 ...

We began our operations in 1979 in Pakistan, assisting Afghan refugees fleeing the war. While we are actively cooperating with agencies in Turkey, assessments indicate that the largest humanitarian needs are in Syria, specifically in Idlib, Aleppo, and Jandairis. Priority is given to people whose homes have been damaged and mothers and children whose lives have been shattered. To date, we have raised more than $500,000. HCI’s team based in Gaziantep has immediately mobilised to evaluate the conditions on the ground and assess the dire needs faced by families. Although the nearest impacted major city is Gaziantep, Turkey, the impact of the devastation is being felt most by the nearly 4.1 million IDPs and refugees in Syria who depend on daily humanitarian aid

As recently as last November, civil engineers in Turkey raised warnings that the country's infrastructure was incapable of handling a large earthquake.

Irfanoglu also cites Chile as a model for building strategies that have held up in the face of earthquakes: “There is an undeniable field of evidence of what works.” He says that in 1997, Turkey passed a code that required buildings to be constructed using ductile concrete, a material that is more flexible in the event of an earthquake, but estimates that only one in 10 buildings in the country meets the standard, as old buildings are often reused rather than razed down to meet new standards. “The construction industry is a big source of money,” explains Tüzün. “Once you experience an earthquake or a disaster of any scale, you become a lot more sensitive.” Irfanoglu says that as the region recovers, this experience might make towns more aware of the importance of proper building practices. When the area experienced a 5.9 earthquake in 2022, it saw significantly less damage. Turkey has the highest regional disparities in GDP among 29 OECD countries, according to a “It costs on average 10-15% of the replacement cost,” says Miyamoto. In each of these three pillars of safe construction, it is known that there are serious problems both legally and in practice.” The plan involved designating hundreds of urban spaces as evacuation points in case of emergency. The government also pledged new construction standards and a plan to strengthen existing buildings. As recently as last November, civil engineers raised warnings that the country’s infrastructure was incapable of handling a large earthquake.

The sight of newly constructed apartments collapsing in the earthquakes that hit Turkey has sparked anger. The BBC examined three new buildings, turned to ...

These have been passed since the 1960s (with the latest in 2018). Damage assessment studies are continuing rapidly in the field." Responding to the BBC, Mr Altas said: "Among the hundreds of buildings I have built in Hatay [the southern province which has Antakya as its capital]. "We painfully witness how some media organisations are changing perception and picking scapegoats under the guise of reporting," he said. That means it should also have been built to the latest standards. Photographs show that another recently built apartment block in the port city of Iskenderun was largely destroyed. Columns and beams must be distributed to effectively absorb the impact of earthquakes. While the original advert is no longer available online, screenshots and videos of it circulating on social media match similar adverts by the same company. have collapsed." The BBC examined three new buildings, turned to rubble, to find out what they reveal about building safety. He adds that the earthquake was of such a vast scale that almost no buildings in the city survived intact. The BBC matched the image of the collapsed building to a publicity photo published by the construction company, which shows that it was completed in 2019.

Earthquakes kill thousands across Syria and Turkey, five dead in an Israeli raid on Jericho, and a woman's killing leads to outrage in Iraq.

[Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen](/news/2023/2/7/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-teenager-in-nablus-west-bank-raid?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Middle%20East%20922023&utm_medium=email) in Nablus raid [UK High Court rules against Bahrain in spyware case](/news/2023/2/8/uk-high-court-rules-against-bahrain-in-spyware-case?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Middle%20East%20922023&utm_medium=email) [popular YouTuber](/news/2023/2/4/iraqis-outraged-after-father-kills-youtube-star-daughter?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Middle%20East%20922023&utm_medium=email) killed by her father, the Ministry of the Interior in Iraq announced on Friday. [witnessed people still shocked](/news/2023/2/8/israel-forces-leaves-aqabet-jaber-refugee-camp-grief-stricken?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Middle%20East%20922023&utm_medium=email) by what they said was the use of excessive force by the Israelis. [[WATCH: Videos reveal extent of Turkey, Syria earthquake devastation]](/news/2023/2/7/videos-reveal-turkey-syria-earthquake-devastation?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Middle%20East%20922023&utm_medium=email) The [sheer size of the area affected](/news/2023/2/8/infographic-how-big-were-the-earthquakes-in-turkey-syria?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Middle%20East%20922023&utm_medium=email), with cities hundreds of kilometres apart, reveals the power of what were two of the largest earthquakes by magnitude in the 21st century.

British humanitarian charities are to launch an appeal to raise funds for people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

A lot of people are sleeping in cars because they are scared to go back into the buildings due to aftershocks. The cars are freezing cold.” “When disasters like these terrible earthquakes strike, we know the British people want to help,” he said. There is a lot of screaming, people are trying to find relatives. The next priority is supporting people who have lost their homes and gone through huge trauma. “That is why we are match-funding public donations to DEC’s appeal to provide urgent humanitarian assistance, as part of a wider package of support from the UK that will be used to provide lifesaving interventions to those who need it most in the region.”

An appeal is being launched by the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by earthquakes that hit Turkey ...

A lot of people are sleeping in cars because they are scared to go back into the buildings due to aftershocks." The next priority is supporting people who have lost their homes and gone through huge trauma. There is a lot of screaming, people are trying to find relatives. Many people have lost homes, leaving them without shelter in freezing, winter conditions, the DEC says. Money raised will also provide blankets, warm clothes and heaters for safe spaces. Thousands of buildings have been destroyed in the disaster and responders have been searching the rubble for survivors.

Whose 'fault' is it when an earthquake happens? The surface of the Earth is made of kilometres of hard rock broken into a puzzle of moving pieces called ...

Judith Hubbard is a visiting assistant professor at the Cornell Earth and Atmospheric Sciences school, and she studies faults around the world. The next step, Bruneau said, is “the idea of seismic resilience” – buildings that recover. SEESL’s Michel Bruneau said: “It is possible to build structures that can survive this,” referring to a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Soil matching and radiocarbon dating of the area fall within the field of paleoseismology, mapping ancient events that inform future ones. ”We can make calculations about places that are more or less likely to have earthquakes as a result of [another],” said Wright. “We have to put a stethoscope” on the Earth, said Harold Tobin, professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Washington, “to determine what’s happening down there. Engineers can design failure points into the structure by moving them away from the columns that hold the building up and placing them in less critical areas. He is waiting for InSAR data from a European satellite that will make its first pass over southern Turkey since a series of high-magnitude earthquakes hit on February 6. Scientists are asked all the time whether it is possible to predict an earthquake. Scientists use seismographs, which used to be wiggling needles that record the ground’s shakes, but now the equipment is all digital. There is a global network of these, as well as local and regional networks, and much of the data is open-source and automatically connected. Did you know that there are hundreds of earthquakes every single day, not always strong enough for us to notice them?

On an alleged tsunami threat to Turkiye and neighbouring countries, he said: "In order for a post-earthquake tsunami to occur in the region, the earthquake's ...

On an alleged tsunami threat to Turkiye and neighbouring countries, he said: "In order for a post-earthquake tsunami to occur in the region, the earthquake's base must be on the coast. "The fault line that broke in Turkiye is nearly 350 kilometres (217.5 miles) long. I'm talking about the eastern part of the fault line.

Karasözen is an earthquake geologist who lives in Colorado, but she grew up in the Turkish capital of Ankara, and she's studied the earthquakes in her home ...

Steckler is worried about a major quake in densely populated [Bangladesh](https://phys.org/news/2016-07-giant-quake-lurk-bangladesh.html). In 2020, Karasözen and a team of scientists published a He noted that in Tohoku, Japan, there was a baseline expectation of a 7.0- to 7.5-magnitude earthquake, but in 2011 a deadly 9.0-magnitude quake caused a tsunami and widespread devastation. But the type of damage (floors piled up on each other) should not have taken place.” For years, scientists have been predicting the “Big One” somewhere along the San Andreas fault in California. “We spend a lot of time thinking about those places, because that patch seems locked, loaded and ready to go. This is the map of earthquake hazard in Türkiye, produced in 2018 by the national agency AFAD. A particular fault can easily wait many generations and do absolutely nothing — and in matter of seconds to minutes, all hell breaks loose,” said Harold Tobin, a seismologist at the University of Washington. It shows that the two distinct fault zones for both the M7.8 and the M7.5 were both identified as high hazard. She instantly knew that a [ 7.8-magnitude quake](https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/02/06/turkey-earthquake-magnitude/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) meant devastation. These concerns are especially true in so-called “seismic gaps,” segments of known fault zones that haven’t ruptured in an unusually long time — long enough that people may have let their guard down. [massive earthquake](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/06/turkey-syria-earthquake/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) in southeastern Turkey, she burst into tears.

We extend the heartfelt sympathies of the entire University of Utah community to all those who are suffering in the wake of Monday's powerful earthquakes in ...

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Hundreds of aftershocks have affected the region throughout the week, and government officials have estimated a combined death toll near 20000.

There is no other possible way to stay here.” “No one can currently go back to the apartments, because it’s not safe enough,” Araban said. “When I talk to the families staying here, for most of them the goal is to leave the city.

The death toll from Monday's quakes in Turkey and Syria passed 20,000 on Thursday across both countries. Fearful of another earthquake, some chose to stay ...

It qualified as "major" on the official magnitude scale. Electricity and water were nonexistent in the southern city. Khan reported from London. "Where is the state? "I lived alone, in a one room house," she said. Let us do it, we can get them out," Sabiha Alinak told Reuters amid the rubble in the city of Malatya on Wednesday.

The majority of Syrian refugees live in southern Turkish cities near the Syrian border. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Assalah Shikhani, a Syrian refugees in ...

We don't know where we have to go. We don't know the news. I stayed in the car yesterday. With no hijab, with no shoes, just with pajamas, I was running and shouting with the names of my daughters "Where are you? I stayed two hours in the cold with my daughters. So I take all my daughters, and my brother's wife, his kids, my dad and my mom to the park. We don't know what happened. And then went back with my brother to get my two aunts, they are old, out of the building. I try to get my daughters out of the building. I have a five-year-old and a 14-year-old. I put my daughters under the table. She fled from the war in Syria 12 years ago and came to Turkey as a refugee.

Human rights groups criticised the timing, content of UN aid delivered to northwest Syria three days after the quakes.

The World Bank announced $1.78bn in aid to Turkey to help relief and recovery efforts. All kinds of teams and vehicles from across the country have been dispatched to the region,” he said. Currently, the Bab al-Hawa border crossing is the only viable route for UN aid. As rescue efforts continued, tens of thousands of survivors were evacuated from the worst-affected Turkish cities. The flow of humanitarian aid had been temporarily disrupted since the first predawn quake hit on Monday due to logistical issues and damage to the road connecting Gaziantep, Turkey to the UN transshipment hub in Hatay, Turkey. [ first delivery](/news/2023/2/9/un-aid-convoy-syria-turkey-earthquake) of six trucks of aid supplies from the United Nations crossed into northwest Syria on Thursday.

KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 9, 2023 – With the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, University of Rhode Island professors Meng “Matt” Wei and Brian Savage ...

The earthquakes in and around Turkey probably have a maximum magnitude of around 8. The process is too complex for us and we do not understand the earthquake’s physics well enough to predict the time and place of a specific event. The fault in Turkey is the same type as the San Andreas in California. Due to the earthquake’s size and location, it impacted numerous cities in the region. He adds, “It is well known that the area was overdue for a large earthquake; however, events such as these are not very common and happened because of the location near active geological faults.” 9, 2023 – With the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, University of Rhode Island professors

Two devastating earthquakes struck Southeast Türkiye and Northwest Syria on Monday, killing over 20,000 people. Rescue teams continue to conduct search-and- ...

The temperatures are in the single digits during the day, and below zero at night. Ports are closed and major roads are blocked or impassable. Thousands of buildings collapsed throughout the region.ii As of Tuesday afternoon, nearly 8,000 people have been rescued by search and rescue teams in Türkiye. The inclement weather has also delayed aid workers from reaching affected areas, and many displaced citizens are without shelter. The airports in Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Malatya, and Adiyaman are only open to aircrafts carrying emergency aid and search and rescue personnel. Winter storms are compounding the challenges faced by rescuers and humanitarian organizations.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and war-torn Syria on Monday has killed more than 20000 people. Here are some of the world's deadliest ...

— Dec. — Jan. — Oct. — Aug. — Sept. — May 21, 2003: More than 2,200 people are killed in a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Algeria. Emergency crews are still searching for survivors but in some areas work is now underway to demolish unsteady buildings. — Feb. [triggers a tsunami](https://apnews.com/article/japan-accidents-tsunamis-earthquakes-42d4947609becd7f141e9524a8c98937), killing more than 18,400 people. — April 25, 2015: In Nepal, more than 8,800 people are killed by a [magnitude 7.2 earthquake](https://apnews.com/article/haiti-earthquake-98f06a322e12f732f94485238d13558c) kills more than 2,200 people. — June 22, 2022: In Afghanistan, more than 1,100 people die in

Monday's quakes were so large and shallow that they would substantially damage older buildings. However, the number of newly built yet devastated buildings ...

The government has started the so-called urban transformation project in Istanbul and is supporting the replacement of old buildings. Erdogan and his followers have been proud of how the government has spent its energy to change and seemingly create a modern-looking country. Turkey records similar scenes and tragedies after every major quake in the past two decades. The photos show how these asphalts were made in contravention of the government tenders. Endemic corruption is even worse in the municipalities responsible for checking and licensing newly built structures. The government wants every relief effort under its control and creates obstacles for political parties in the opposition. The suspicious July 15 coup attempt in 2016 served as a pretext, which he labeled “a gift from God,” to change the constitution and move Turkey to the darkness of a Middle Eastern-type presidential system. The late and uncoordinated response has killed many due to hypothermia in the cold weather. The amounts of steel and the types of concrete are inadequate. Turkey has declared a three-month state of emergency in the 10 worst-affected provinces. One of the significant quakes occurred in Golcuk and left more than 17,000 people dead in 1999, followed by another major quake that killed hundreds in 2011. The country has already recorded deadly earthquakes over the past decades in which the sudden collapse of multi-story buildings led to tremendous losses.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and war-torn Syria on Monday has killed more than 20000 people. Here are some of the world's deadliest ...

— Dec. — Jan. — Oct. — May 21, 2003: More than 2,200 people are killed in a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Algeria. — Aug. Emergency crews are still searching for survivors but in some areas work is now underway to demolish unsteady buildings. — Sept. [triggers a tsunami](https://apnews.com/article/japan-accidents-tsunamis-earthquakes-42d4947609becd7f141e9524a8c98937), killing more than 18,400 people. [magnitude 7.5 earthquake](https://apnews.com/article/science-ap-top-news-earthquakes-international-news-tsunamis-e87a48958177401d9b36a5c9c45ba545) hits Indonesia, triggering a tsunami and killing more than 4,300 people. — Feb. [magnitude 7.2 earthquake](https://apnews.com/article/haiti-earthquake-98f06a322e12f732f94485238d13558c) kills more than 2,200 people. [magnitude 7.8 earthquake](https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/02/07/1155034696/earthquake-turkey-syria-photos) kills more than 20,000 people.

First UN aid trucks cross into northwestern Syria as pledges pour in for relief and recovery efforts in Turkey.

The assistance aims to help relief and recovery efforts following devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in Türkiye that have already resulted in massive loss ...

[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. This will identify priority areas for the country’s recovery and reconstruction as we prepare operations to support those needs." "We are providing immediate assistance and preparing a rapid assessment of the urgent and massive needs on the ground.

The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday has now surpassed 20783 people.

And that focus isn’t just about search and rescue; that focus is about ensuring people continue to survive and have what they need to be able to do so,” the WHO official said. Robert Holden, the WHO’s incident response manager, said there were “a lot of people” surviving “out in the open, in worsening and horrific conditions”. On Thursday, the United Nations (UN) agency said there was an urgency to ensure that people who survived the earthquake “continue to survive” now.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., (WCIA) — People are grieving and searching for survivors left in the rubble of Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey.

Situation Report in English on Türkiye about Contributions, Food and Nutrition, Earthquake and more; published on 9 Feb 2023 by USAID.

At 4:17 a.m. UN – February 2023 Media – February 2023

The UK will send a field hospital and C130 Hercules critical care air support team and aircraft in the coming days to help provide vital emergency treatment ...

The UK has moved quickly to get vital emergency supplies to survivors of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Our thoughts are with the many victims of this catastrophic earthquake. This is part of a wider package of UK support to the people of Turkey and Syria.

Students at Iowa State have taken to fundraising after a series of earthquakes hit the southeastern region of Turkey and the border of Syria, ...

Every penny counts and will make a difference in the lives of those in need.” Your contribution will allow us to purchase equipment, send our student journalists to conferences and off-set their cost of living so they can continue to do best-in-the-nation work at the Iowa State Daily. The third and fourth phase will be to focus efforts on the health and education of children. Students share many areas that have been affected have not been reached by rescue teams, and the need for aid is immediate. “I am heartbroken to see my loved ones struggling in the aftermath of this tragedy.” “So, we came together to establish a channel for funding to maximize our reach and impact.”

Critics are laying into the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing it of incompetence in its response to the massive quake and misplacing ...

When asked if Erdogan's government has done enough to help the victims, Soleymez says, "They've done what they're able to do. Ozel says it's not just a "near-total incompetence on preparedness on the part of the government" in responding to this week's earthquake. "However we can get it to them, it doesn't matter. Even Erdogan himself has admitted "the first day we had some discomforts," before insisting to survivors near the quake's epicenter, "second day, and then today, the situation got under control." But the Turkish government has come under particularly sharp criticism. "Where is that money?

The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and western Syria on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction in both countries.

[PALSAR-2](https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS-2/en/about/palsar2.htm) on the [Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2](https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS-2/en/about/overview.htm) (ALOS-2) on February 8, 2023. Story by [Adam Voiland](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/about/adam-voiland). [disasters program area](https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/disasters) of NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences, as well as their national and international collaborators, are in the process of sharing the damage proxy map and the data used to generate it with organizations such as the U.S. [Joshua Stevens](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/about/joshua-stevens), using Landsat data from the [U.S. “In addition to mapping damage to the extent possible from satellites, we’re using satellites to track increased landslide risks, power outages, and weather that could pose challenges to response efforts.” As new data become available, the team is posting near real-time imagery and data products related to the earthquake on its [mapping portal](https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/arcgis/apps/MinimalGallery/index.html?appid=cb116456d682456abc38b90d96a72713). “The map covers only the central part of the affected area due to the narrow, 70-kilometer swath of the ALOS-2 fine-beam data used, but it includes the epicenters of both the magnitude 7.8 main earthquake and the magnitude 7.5 aftershock,” said Fielding. Geological Survey](http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov) and ALOS-2 data from the [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/JAXA](https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/index_e.htm) and the [Earth Observatory of Singapore Remote Sensing Lab](https://earthobservatory.sg/research-group/eos-rs). Each pixel measures about 30 meters across (about the size of a baseball infield). Dark red pixels represent areas likely to have severe damage to buildings, homes, and infrastructure or changes to the landscape, while orange and yellow areas are moderately or partially damaged. The rupture length and magnitude was similar to the 1906 earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.” The first quake was followed by a 7.5 magnitude event about nine hours later, as well as hundreds of smaller aftershocks. [initial earthquake](https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/magnitude-78-earthquake-nurdagi-turkey) emanated from a fault 18 kilometers (11 miles) below the land surface.