The Turkish government has updated the death toll from yesterday's earthquake to 3.381, with 20.436 people injured.
The Turkish Agency for Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD) reported this. In Syria the count is more complicated and also destined to rise, according to the authorities there are at least 1.451 deaths. The overall provisional toll is therefore at least 4.832 deaths.
According to an update from Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD), at least 120 aftershocks have occurred since the powerful earthquake. Among the victims, 2.921 have been recorded in Turkey, while Syrian authorities have so far counted 1.444 deaths.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck central Turkey, a few kilometers from Golbasi, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reports, in the aftermath of the devastating quake in southeastern Turkey and Syria.
Türkiye Earthquake: New 5.3 Magnitude Shock at 4,13:XNUMX AM Italian Time
The new shock was recorded at 4.13 Italian time at a depth of two kilometers, 5 kilometers from the Golbasi area. It was preceded and followed by other shocks in the central part of the country and by one of magnitude 4.2 in the area hit by the earthquake yesterday.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced seven days of national mourning for the victims of the earthquake. “Due to the earthquakes that occurred in our country on February 6, 2023, a seven-day period of national mourning has been declared. Our flag will be flown at half-mast until sunset on Sunday, February 12, 2023, in all representations of our country and abroad,” Erdogan said in a statement.
Turkey and Syria were hit by two very strong earthquakes yesterday in what the Turkish president called the most serious since the one that hit the Turkish province of Erzincan in 1939. The first tremor, with a magnitude of 7.8, was recorded at 4:17 a.m. local time (2:17 a.m. in Italy) and had its epicenter in the town of Pazarcik in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras.
A second earthquake of magnitude 7.6 was recorded around 13:24 local time (11:24 in Italy) in the district of Elbistan, also in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 58 villages and cities under the control of the government of Damascus led by President Bashar al Assad – including Latakia, Hama and Aleppo – were hit by the earthquake. The provinces of Afrin and Idlib, largely controlled by rebel militias supported by the Turkish Armed Forces, were also devastated.
Türkiye Earthquake: Over 7800 People Saved
More than 7800 people have been rescued so far in Turkey in the 10 provinces hit by the earthquake, according to Orhan Tatar, an official from the Emergency Management Authority.
Türkiye Earthquake: Mother and Three Children Saved from Rubble After 28 Hours
In Nizip, in the Turkish province of Gaziantep, a woman and her three children were pulled alive from the rubble of a building, 28 hours after it collapsed due to the devastating earthquake that hit the country yesterday, Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported.
After the devastating earthquakes that hit 10 provinces with its epicenter in Kahramanmaras, rescuers continue to dig for survivors under the rubble. In Nizip, rescue teams, following rumors, managed to save the family, a woman and three children, after 28 hours under the rubble of a six-story building, collapsed under the force of the devastating earthquake.
All four were taken to hospital by ambulances, but other people remained around the destroyed building waiting for news from their relatives, who remained under the rubble.
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