Turkey earthquake

The quake, centred at north of the city of Gaziantep, about 90km from the Syrian border, left a huge trail of destruction in both countries and was felt as far ...

Tens of thousands who were left homeless in Turkey and Syria faced a night in the cold. "Almost all of Turkey is really seismically active," Mr Sandvol said. Rescuers in Turkey and war-ravaged Syria continued their search overnight, hoping to pull more survivors from the rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 4,000 people and toppled thousands of buildings across a wide region. Authorities said 3,381 people had died in Turkey, with more than 15,000 injured. Rescue teams worked early on Tuesday to free people trapped in the rubble of buildings in southern Turkey as the death toll in that country rose to 3,381. [Turkey](/topic/turkey) early this morning after two massive [earthquakes](/topic/earthquakes) are reported to have killed more than 4,800 people and wounded many thousands more in Turkey and [Syria](/topic/syria).

“We hope that we will get through this disaster together as soon as possible and with the least damage,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted. His ...

"Many hospitals are full, but some critical facilities, including Al Dana Hospital, had to evacuate patients after sustaining severe damage from the earthquake," the group said in a statement. Rubble fell from the empty space between the buildings. Strained health facilities and hospitals were quickly filled with the injured, rescue workers said. Turkey, meanwhile, is home to millions of refugees from the conflict. Many of them live in buildings that are already damaged from past bombardments. Rubble fell from the chimney. The opposition-held regions in Syria are packed with about 4 million people displaced from other parts of the country by the fighting. That is the disaster here." Many buildings were flattened into piles of pancaked floors, with aftershocks continuing to rattle the region. The buildings were shaking as if they were shaken by Jinn [evil spirits]. The student added, "We are now outside since we left our homes around 4 a.m. Officials in Turkey said at least 2,316 people were killed with more than 13,000 injured.

A powerful earthquake has struck in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 500 people as they slept and trapping many others.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: In Sanliurfa, to the east, there were 17 deaths. They said that a second tremor hit the region just minutes later. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. And more deaths were reported in Diyarbakir and Osmaniye. It went on for four-five minutes and it was pretty horrific.

The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after a 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and ...

At this time, we stand by the friendly Turkish people and are ready to provide the necessary assistance.” Russian President Vladimir Putin also offered condolences in telegrams to the leaders of Syria and Turkey and expressed readiness to help. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Twitter that “search and rescue teams were immediately dispatched” to the areas hit by the quake. In a tweet, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US was “profoundly concerned by today’s destructive earthquake” in Turkey and Syria. At least 20 aftershocks have been reported, the strongest measuring 6.6, hampering rescue and search efforts and causing the collapse of already damaged buildings. The region has been under siege for years, enduring frequent Russian and government airstrikes, and depends on aid from nearby Turkey for everything from food to medical supplies.

A powerful earthquake has struck in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 500 people as they slept and trapping many others.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: France, Germany, Israel, and the US have also pledged to help. We need the international community to do something, to help us, to support us. The UK has said it will send 76 specialists, equipment and rescue dogs. The country's worst earthquake disaster was in 1939 when 33,000 people died in Turkey's eastern Erzincan province. Thousands of buildings across both the countries have collapsed, and several videos show the moment they fell, as onlookers ran for cover. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. Survivors said it took two minutes for the shaking to stop. There have been dozens of fatalities reported in rebel-held areas. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the "We're still feeling regular after-shocks... The second quake - triggered by the first - had a magnitude of 7.5, and its epicentre was in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said 912 have died in the country, with at least 5,383 people injured across 10 provinces affected by the quake and ...

He tweeted: “Saddened about the loss of lives in Turkey and Syria following the major earthquake. The UK stands ready to provide assistance.” We will continue to closely monitor the situation in coordination with the government of Turkey.” British foreign secretary James Cleverly also said the UK stands ready to help, tweeting: “Tragic loss of life in the Turkey and Syria earthquake. As partner of Turkey and holder of the EU presidency, we stand ready to offer our support.” In Diyarbakir, rescue teams called for silence as they tried to listen for survivors under the wreckage of an 11-story building. Emergency rooms were full of injured, said Amjad Rass, president of the Syrian American Medical Society. Rescue workers pulled out one man, carrying him on a stretcher through a dense crowd of hundreds of people anxiously watching the rescue efforts. The UK stands ready to help in whatever way we can. Mosques around the region were being opened up as a shelter for people unable to return to damaged homes amid temperatures that hovered around freezing. The region has been shaped by more than a decade of war in Syria. The death toll was expected to rise further.

With thousands injured, the death toll is expected to increase as rescue workers search the rubble. Multiple buildings have tumbled down in Syria and, ...

23 October 2011 - More than 600 people were killed when a 7.2-magnitude quake struck the eastern cities of Van and Ecris. Around half a million people were left homeless after the disaster. 1 May 2003 - More than 160 people were killed, including 83 children in a collapsed school dormitory, in a 6.4-magnitude quake. Tremors were also felt in Syria, Lebanon and Iran. "I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I've lived," said Erdem, a resident of Gaziantep. Turkey’s third-largest city Izmir was heavily affected, with 119 people killed in total and more than 1,050 injured. Parts of the fortresses' walls and watch towers collapsed, with other parts heavily damaged, images showed. The situation in northern Syria is especially concerning. Multiple buildings have tumbled down in Syria and Turkey, with Ankara declaring a "level 4 alarm" calling for international assistance. "Many of the buildings in the towns affected are simply not designed to cope with this level of strong shaking, and in Syria many structures have already been weakened by more than a decade of war. Dozens of aftershocks have also been felt. 24 January 2020 - More than 40 people were killed and more than 1,600 injured in a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the eastern province of Elazig.

Ankara calls for international assistance after biggest quake in more than 80 years causes huge destruction.

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It was 04:17 local time when Erdem, asleep at his home in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, was shaken from his sleep by one of Turkey's biggest-ever earthquakes.

"My sister and her three children are there," he told AFP. "I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I've lived," he said. "I started pulling rocks away with my hands. "There was screaming everywhere," one 30-year-old man told Reuters. People went to their cars to escape the damaged buildings. We pulled out the injured with friends, but the screaming didn't stop.

As a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits southeast Turkey, how might travel to the country be impacted?

In its general advice on Turkey, the FCDO says: “Many parts of Turkey are subject to earthquakes. The city is in the southeast of the country, close to the Syrian border and a sizeable distance from Turkey’s tourism hubs. The UK stands ready to help in whatever way we can.” The town is 842km east of Antalya, and 196km north of Gaziantep. 3.20am and my whole hotel is floating, bed is shaking on the ground and everybody is screaming. Then I see the news in #Turkey First day on my holidays and #earthquake?” She later told followers she was staying in Larnaca, Cyprus. The first quake was felt at 4.17am local time, with one resident telling Turkey’s emergency authorities have since reported a second, 7.5 magnitude earthquake in a different southeast location at 1.24pm local time. You should familiarise yourself with safety procedures in the event of an earthquake and follow the advice of the local authorities.” An update to the FCDO’s Turkey page in the early hours of Monday reads: “A 7.8 earthquake hit Gaziantep and neighbouring provinces in the south east of Turkey on 6 February 2023. At the time of writing, the combined death toll of the incident in [earthquake](/topic/earthquake) has struck an area of southeast [Turkey](/topic/turkey), with tourists urged by the Foreign Office (FCDO) to “avoid the immediate vicinity” of the incident.

It was a big earthquake - registered as 7.8, classified as "major" on the official magnitude scale. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing ...

This has replaced the better known Richter scale, now considered outdated and less accurate. A tremor of 2.5 or less usually cannot be felt, but can be detected by instruments. These plates often try to move but are prevented by the friction of rubbing up against an adjoining one. The Turkish earthquake at 7.8 is classified as major and usually causes serious damage, as it has in this instance. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing serious damage to buildings near the fault. The next 24 hours are crucial to find survivors.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit close to the Turkish city of Gaziantep at 1:17 am UTC on 6 February. This was followed by a 7.5-magnitude quake around 130 ...

“Many of the buildings look to have been apartment blocks that have undergone pancake collapse,” he says. Those rescued within the first 24 hours have the best chance of survival, but cold weather, the civil war in Syria and the chaos caused by the two earthquakes are making swift travel to affected regions challenging, experts warn. “Looking at images from the cities affected, it is clear that rescuers have a massive job on their hands.” “This earthquake was survivable,” says Kelman. In a press conference, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said “everyone is putting their heart and soul” into rescue efforts. The earthquakes happened along the East Anatolian fault, which runs through eastern Turkey, from south-west to north-east.

As a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits southeast Turkey, how might travel to the country be impacted?

In its general advice on Turkey, the FCDO says: “Many parts of Turkey are subject to earthquakes. The city is in the southeast of the country, close to the Syrian border and a sizeable distance from Turkey’s tourism hubs. The UK stands ready to help in whatever way we can.” The town is 842km east of Antalya, and 196km north of Gaziantep. 3.20am and my whole hotel is floating, bed is shaking on the ground and everybody is screaming. Then I see the news in #Turkey First day on my holidays and #earthquake?” She later told followers she was staying in Larnaca, Cyprus. The first quake was felt at 4.17am local time, with one resident telling Turkey’s emergency authorities have since reported a second, 7.5 magnitude earthquake in a different southeast location at 1.24pm local time. You should familiarise yourself with safety procedures in the event of an earthquake and follow the advice of the local authorities.” An update to the FCDO’s Turkey page in the early hours of Monday reads: “A 7.8 earthquake hit Gaziantep and neighbouring provinces in the south east of Turkey on 6 February 2023. At the time of writing, the combined death toll of the incident in [earthquake](/topic/earthquake) has struck an area of southeast [Turkey](/topic/turkey), with tourists urged by the Foreign Office (FCDO) to “avoid the immediate vicinity” of the incident.

“Unfortunately the death toll is likely to climb quickly,” Mr Godby said. “A similar magnitude earthquake that hit Izmit in Turkey in 1999 killed more than ...

“Dozens of people are still under the rubble. Around Abdalla – buildings in the opposition-held area that have been battered by more than a decade of civil war – crumbled one by one. Dozens of people are dead. The roof was waving, it was seconds of terror,” says the 36-year-old father-of-three who volunteers with the Syria Civil Defence organisation, known colloquially as the White Helmets. But the situation is bigger than the White Helmets. “The first 24-48 hours is when most people are normally rescued in this situations, but the cold weather may reduce that time. Some families in opposition-held have been living in homes half-destroyed during airstrikes and bombing by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Two sons of mine are still in the rubble, I’m waiting for them.” It is bigger than any non-governmental organisation, this needs a state-level response to handle it. “Unfortunately the death toll is likely to climb quickly,” Mr Godby said. The neighbouring apartment block collapsed, killing 15 members of an internally-displaced family who had already fled multiple frontlines. The Syrian first responder grabbed his one-month-old baby.

Two earthquakes have killed more than 2000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria.

This has replaced the better known Richter scale, now considered outdated and less accurate. A tremor of 2.5 or less usually cannot be felt, but can be detected by instruments. These plates often try to move but are prevented by the friction of rubbing up against an adjoining one. The Turkish earthquake at 7.8 is classified as major and usually causes serious damage, as it has in this instance. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing serious damage to buildings near the fault. The next 24 hours are crucial to find survivors.

In the early hours of Monday 6 February 2023, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Turkey's border with northern Syria.

Even before the earthquake, the situation in the region was already bad with 80% of people living in poverty. CAFOD's local experts are already on the ground and assessing the needs of those affected by the earthquake. Millions of people across Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel felt the earthquake.

More than 1,000 people have been reported dead so far in northern Syria following the quake. Emergency rescue teams said many buildings are damaged or destroyed ...

Dozens of other nations have promised help, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar. However, BBC Monitoring's Hesham Shawish, a Middle East specialist, says this is not enough to deal with the scale of the destruction. Another said some of his relatives were trapped under the rubble. It may also take some time for international aid to arrive. Twelve hours later, a second quake, which was nearly as large, struck 130km (80 miles) to the north. " There's no one to rescue them.

Dozens of countries offer help as rescue workers and residents frantically search for survivors after devastating 7.8-magnitude tremor.

“Millions have already been forced to flee by war in the wider region and now many more will be displaced by disaster,” said Carsten Hansen, of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Pledges of assistance came in on Monday from countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as North America. Images on Turkish television showed rescuers digging through the rubble of levelled buildings in the city of Kahramanmaraş and neighbouring Gaziantep, where entire high-rise blocks were destroyed. Now we’re all dressed and standing at the door.” “We used our phone’s flashlight so we could get dressed, and hurried out of the house. Television images from Turkey showed shocked people standing in the snow in their pyjamas, watching rescuers dig through the debris of damaged homes. Separately, Moscow said rescuers were departing by plane to Syria. We laid still and waited for the shaking to finish. “We woke up with a jolt, as the electricity was off. Yunus Sezer, who heads Turkey’s disaster relief agency AFAD, said nearly 15,000 search and rescue personnel had been deployed to the region. In some places around southeast Turkey, survivors could be heard screaming from beneath collapsed buildings, the Associated Press reported. That quake killed more than 17,000 people, including at least 1,000 in Istanbul, amid widespread destruction.

The numbers seem certain to rise. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, said the country had been shaken by the “strongest disaster in a century”. But why ...

The most recent quake occurred along a different fault, the East Anatolian, which marches with the Arabian plate. Although meteorologists can predict disasters like hurricanes or floods, seismologists cannot yet do the same with earthquakes (though it is an active area of research). Earthquakes are common, though most happen along the North Anatolian fault, the boundary with the Eurasian plate, which runs close to Istanbul.

At least 2921 have died in Turkey, while Syria toll stands at 1444; WHO says deaths could pass 20000.

More than 10 search and rescue teams from the European Union have been mobilised to help with the recovery, a spokesperson for the European Commission said. The IPCR arrangements strengthen the EU’s ability to take rapid decisions when facing major cross-sectoral crises requiring a response at the EU level. US President Joe Biden spoke with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to offer condolences and reaffirm Washington’s readiness to assist in rescue efforts, the White House said. Syria’s envoy to the UN said Monday that aid sent after the earthquake will reach all its population, even though Damascus does not control all of its territory. “We always see the same thing with earthquakes, unfortunately, which is that the initial reports of the numbers of people who have died or who have been injured will increase quite significantly in the week that follows,” Smallwood added. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said preliminary data showed the second large quake measured 7.7 magnitude, and was 67km (42 miles) north-east of Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, at a depth of 2km. Asked if aid donated to Syria – some areas are held by rebels – would reach all of the population, Syria’s UN envoy Bassam Sabbagh said it would. In 1999, when a tremor of similar magnitude hit the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near Istanbul, it killed more than 17,000. Thousands more are injured, and the death toll is expected to rise. The first quake struck as people slept, and measured magnitude 7.8, one of the most powerful quakes in the region in at least a century. You can get in touch with me directly on Twitter Survivors are being evacuated by military plane to areas where hospitals have greater capacity.

Turkey and Syria's buildings have always been vulnerable to earthquakes – war has made things worse.

That means that people who are trapped in the rubble, who might be rescued, could well freeze to death. A Magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit south-eastern Turkey and parts of Syria in the early hours of the morning of 6 February. Today’s earthquake penetrated into Syria’s north-western regions with reports of buildings collapsing in Aleppo and Idlib. This is because the majority of existing buildings are low-rise brick masonry structures, constructed very close to each other. “This wasn’t a surprise,” says Puskulcu who was touring the cities of Adana, Tarsus, Mersin and west Turkey last week, delivering workshops on public earthquake awareness. The later Magnitude-7.5 event was around 4km south-east of Ekinözü in the Kahramanmaraş province.

Two 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude quakes devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, reducing many buildings to rubble. Turkish communities in the UK have been sending aid to ...

His brother moved to the city of Hatay - which has been devastated by the earthquake - for work, and has lost his house. The company he works for has moved him and his family to a hotel in Adana. "Everyone is like family... He said: "It's shocking. "The priority right now is rescuing people from the rubble and Red Cross Red Crescent teams are on the ground in Syria and Turkey providing urgent support during these critical hours." We lost some immediate family." it's devastating news. Attila Ustun described it as a "heartbreaking" day for Turks everywhere and said there was "a very large connection" between the Turkish communities in east and north London and the area where the quake struck. The chairman of the British Turkish Association said he had been "inundated" with calls from people worried about loved ones. He told the BBC: "We will be focused on an assessment and then trying to identify what are the needs of the affected population, and then helping them. "It's upon us to bring our aid game and do everything to help people in the best way we can." The UK is also sending specialist equipment, four specially trained dogs and a team of emergency medics in what Downing Street said was "very much the initial response".

The latest quake of magnitude 5.7 was recorded at a depth of 46km, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

She said around five million of the affected people are vulnerable. How are we going to save them? They’re saying, ‘Save us,’ but we can’t save them. [Premier League](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/premier-league) footballer [Christian Atsu](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/christian-atsu) has been “successfully rescued” from under the rubble of a collapsed building following an earthquake in southern Turkey. “We are very shocked and saddened by the impact of this disaster on the thousands of people touched by it, including our colleagues and their families,” said Sebastien Gay, the group’s head of mission in Syria. Rescue workers have struggled to cope with the scale of destruction across southern Turkey and northwest Syria, with the total death toll rising above 5,000 on Tuesday morning. More than 1,500 pages have been launched and more than £500,000 raised on GoFundMe across the globe in the first 24 hours since the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Independent TV bring footage from the scene at Istanbul Airport as thousands of rescue workers head to aid the search effort in parts of the country damaged by yesterday’s earthquake. In a speech, Mr Erdogan said that 70 countries had offered help in search and rescue operations and that Turkey planned to open up hotels in the tourism hub of Antalya, to the west, to temporarily house people impacted by the quakes. Up to 23 million people may have been affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria yesterday, the World Health Organisation has warned. Locals in Hayat, Turkey’s worst-hit region, raged at the slow pace of rescue efforts as more than 5,000 people were reported to have died in the aftermath of the tremors across the two countries. [Syria](/topic/syria) has been impeded by the sub-zero temperatures and and close to 200 aftershocks, which made the search through unstable structures perilous.

More than 4800 people are confirmed dead in the quake that struck northern Syria and Turkey.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: In the Turkish city of Osmaniye, near the epicentre, pouring rain hampered rescuers. France, Germany, Israel and the US have also pledged to help. The UK has said it will send 76 specialists, equipment and rescue dogs. Every time they felt an aftershock, the family moved closer into the middle of the street. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the How are we going to save them? They're saying, 'Save us,' but we can't save them. On Tuesday morning, traffic was at a standstill on the main highway to the Turkish city of Maras, close to the epicentre of the quake. A later tremor had a magnitude of 7.5 and its epicentre was in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province. Rescuers are battling heavy rain and snow as they race against the clock to find survivors of a devastating earthquake in south-east Turkey.

Both Turkey and Syria are facing a growing humanitarian disaster as the death toll from devastating earthquakes continues to climb while an international rescue ...

Hundreds of aftershocks were expected after the two tremors, the official told reporters. “It was like the apocalypse,” said Abdul Salam al-Mahmoud, a Syrian in the northern town of Atareb. His pregnant wife, his five-year-old daughter and his four-year-old son have all been killed,” the girl’s uncle, Abu Hussam, said. Two sons of mine are still in the rubble, I’m waiting for them.” An official from Turkey’s disaster management agency said it was a new earthquake, not an aftershock, though its effects were not immediately clear. But most of her family, including her mother, did not make it out alive.

More than 4800 people are confirmed dead in the quake that struck northern Syria and Turkey.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: France, Germany, Israel and the US have also pledged to help. The UK has said it will send 76 specialists, equipment and rescue dogs. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. How are we going to save them? If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the They're saying, 'Save us,' but we can't save them. At least 1,400 people are now known to have been killed in Syria, where millions of refugees live in camps on the Turkish border. As dawn broke on Tuesday, traffic was at a standstill on the main highway to the Turkish city of Maras, close to the epicentre of the quake and believed to be one of the worst-affected areas. Few rescuers have made it to this part of southern Turkey yet and everyone is trying to get there as fast as they can to assess the damage and give vital help. Rescuers are battling heavy rain and snow as they race against the clock to find survivors of a devastating earthquake in south-east Turkey. More than 4,800 people were killed and 15,000 injured in Turkey and over the border in Syria when the quake struck in the early hours of Monday.

Ms Eikelberg told the BBC she was "broken" by the "loss and destruction" in her country. British search and rescue specialists sent by the UK government are due ...

Development Minister Andrew Mitchell said the British team had been due to leave for Turkey on Monday night, but were delayed. "We tried to keep her away from it, but she hears it on the radio. his house was damaged heavily and the wall collapsed on him. They are due to fly out later. He said: "It's shocking. "He's got two little kids," he told BBC Radio Newcastle. "Distant relatives died, but none of my closer relatives - they managed to escape," she said. Ms Eikelberg, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, explained government aid had not reached the village which urgently needs shelter and food. The earthquake has also had a profound effect on her daughter. Will she ever go back?" "People are scared to go in and out because of tremors and they are terrified to get near the houses," she said. Ms Eikelberg told the BBC she was "broken" by the "loss and destruction" in her country.

The 7.8 magnitude quake hit Turkish city Gaziantep in the early hours of Monday.

Turkey’s outstanding disaster relief response capability has been severely tested by the sheer scale of this catastrophe. “The Turkish government has declared a state of emergency and they are requesting international assistance on a scale that matches the enormity of the situation that they are facing. James Denselow, UK head of conflict and humanitarian advocacy for Save the Children UK, told the PA news agency: “The scale of this earthquake, in terms of not just strength but the kind of actual absolute sprawl of it has meant that we’ve had to spend a lot of time in this first phase checking in on needs, checking in on what is working logistically, checking that all our people are OK. “Turkey will lead the disaster relief response in the areas of Syria where it has the presence.” Mr Cleverly told MPs that the Turkish government is requesting international assistance “on a scale that matches the enormity of the situation that they are facing”. The 7.8 magnitude quake hit Turkish city Gaziantep in the early hours of Monday, and since then an extensive search and rescue operation has been

The sense of loss is spreading quickly in Turkey, the BBC's Tom Bateman reports from Adana.

A region awaits help it may be impossible to provide on the scale needed. We hear the drills and the crump of the digger. "What am I going to tell the girls? She cries again, and then bangs on metal trying to hold the man's attention. We left the house with them at the last moment. A family gathers, too frightened from aftershocks to go back to their badly hit building. And a woman's voice is heard from underneath." There, thousands of buildings are reported collapsed, the number of homeless even higher. "As you see, there is a dead body here. She is under the earth. I met two women wrapped in blankets, heading towards the rubble. It's cracked, he says: "They'll all have to come down."

Photos from Turkey and Syria show collapsed buildings and devastation across the region.

The mosque was destroyed by a huge earthquake in 1894 and, after reconstruction, damaged by another quake in 1964. The historic Yeni Camii mosque, in Malatya, more than 100 miles (160km) from the epicentre, was extensively damaged. Its epicentre was near Gaziantep - a city of more than two million people.

More than 5,000 people are known to have died in Turkey and northern Syria, which was also devastated by the quake. The United Nations warned that thousands of ...

An attempt to use a fire-fighting boat to tackle the blaze has failed. One woman the BBC spoke to is sheltering with her children and grandchildren, including a six-year-old who has epilepsy. They remain embroiled in conflict as a result of an ongoing civil war. A group of men using sledgehammers and other tools found the bodies of a man and a young girl who were trapped. One woman told the BBC that rescuers came and took pictures of the building belonging to her boyfriend's family where they believed 11 people were trapped, but they didn't return. Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing later this week.