Turkey and Syria hit by magnitude 7.8 quake, essentially the most lethal in Turkey since an earthquake in 1999 that killed 17,500.
A devastating earthquake has struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing almost 1,600 individuals in a 40-second-long tremor that was felt so far as Lebanon and Cyprus.
Rescue groups on Monday have been racing to seek out survivors trapped beneath tangles of metallic and chunks of concrete in cities and cities throughout the 2 nations.
Turkey sits on main fault traces and is incessantly hit by earthquakes.
Right here’s a fast round-up of Turkey’s worst quakes of the previous 25 years:
August 1999
A robust magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Marmara, a densely populated area to the south of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest metropolis, for 45 seconds. Inside days, the official demise toll stood at 17,500.
November 1999
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit the jap Turkish city of Duzce, inflicting a minimum of 845 deaths.
Could 2003
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the jap province of Bingol, bringing down a college dormitory. A minimum of 167 individuals, together with 83 youngsters, have been killed.
March 2010
A minimum of 42 individuals have been killed after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the jap province of Elazig.
October 2011
Two earthquakes hit the jap Turkish metropolis of Van. The primary one (magnitude 7.2) struck on October 23 and the second (magnitude 5.6) hit on November 9, claiming 644 lives in complete.
January 2020
A magnitude 6.8 quake rocked Elazig, killing a minimum of 22 individuals and injuring greater than 1,000. It was felt additionally in Syria, Georgia and Armenia.
October 2020
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake levelled buildings in jap Greece and western Turkey on October 30, killing a minimum of 24 individuals and injuring almost 800.
A lot of the harm in Turkey occurred in and across the Aegean resort metropolis of Izmir.
February 2023
A robust magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwest Syria. A minimum of 1,014 individuals have been killed and greater than 5,000 injured in Turkey.
In Syria, already devastated by greater than 11 years of civil warfare, state media stated a minimum of 371 individuals have been killed and greater than 1,000 injured, principally in Hama, Aleppo and Latakia provinces.
Within the rebel-held area of northwest Syria, rescuers stated 221 individuals had died.
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