Update 4:
February 13, 2023
Present death toll surpasses 36,000. SOURCE
Update 3:
Sunday 12, 2023
The death toll from Monday’s earthquake has surpassed 28,000. Turkish vice president said last night the death toll in his country had risen to 24,617. The Agence France-Presse has reported there has been 3,553 deaths in Syria.
UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths said the death toll from the earthquake is likely to “more than double”, adding that he expected tens of thousands more deaths. He visited the Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş on Saturday, describing the earthquake as the “worst event in 100 years in this region”
Update 2:
Thursday 09, 2023
The total number of deaths as a result of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as of Thursday evening has already exceeded 20 thousand.
According to the latest data from the Turkish Emergency Management Authority, 17,134 people have been confirmed dead in the affected provinces and another 70,347 injured.
Together with the latest data on deaths in Syria – 3317 people – the number of earthquake victims in both countries is 20,451.
The earthquake is already called the third worst for Turkey in recent history - after the Great Anatolian earthquake of 1668 and the Erzinjan earthquake of 1939.
Update 1:
The powerful earthquake in Turkey on Monday morning has killed 912 people and injured 5,385 so far.
According to Erdogan, the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.7, was the largest disaster in the history of Turkey after the catastrophic Erzinjan earthquake of 1939, which killed more than 33 thousand people.
Excerpt
February 06, 2023.
At least 284 people died Monday in Türkiye when a major 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the southeast of the country, local officials said.
Officials said 284 people were killed and 2,323 injured in the provinces of Malatya, Şanlıurfa, Osmaniye and Diyarbakır, although the toll threatened to climb much higher because of the heavy damage.
According to the country's disaster agency, the strong earthquake originated in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş.
Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said the 7.4 magnitude quake struck at 4.17 a.m. (1:17 a.m. GMT) and was centered in the Pazarcık district.
The quake occurred at a depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles).
It was followed by a magnitude 6.4 quake that struck southeastern Gaziantep province.
A third earthquake with a 6.5 magnitude also hit Gaziantep.
The initial earthquake was also felt in other southeastern provinces, including Diyarbakır and neighboring countries including Lebanon and Syria.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took to Twitter to convey get-well wishes to citizens affected by the initial earthquake.
He added that AFAD and other units are "on alert.”
He noted that rescue teams were immediately dispatched to the province affected by the earthquake.
"Our Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Health, the AFAD, provincial governorships and all other institutions started their work rapidly."
"We are also coordinating our work after the earthquake. We hope that we will get through this disaster together as soon as possible and with the least damage and we will continue our work."
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu also said that six earthquakes with a magnitude above 6.0 hit the country early Monday.
Western Syria
A powerful earthquake killed dozens and injured hundreds in northern and western Syria early on Monday, state media said, as rescue teams battled heavy rain and sleet in a search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
More than 200 people were killed and more than 600 injured in the Syrian regions of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia, the state news agency (SANA) said.
Syrian civil defense in opposition-held northwestern Idlib said the quake killed tens of people and injured hundreds in the areas where it operates.
"No official numbers yet but dozens reported dead and hundreds injured, many trapped under the rubble," the force, known as the White Helmets, said in a Twitter message.
Many buildings in the affected areas had already suffered damage in fighting during Syria's nearly 12-year civil war.
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