Earthquakes

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.

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.

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.

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

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to the disaster — and potential calls for accountability as to why so many Turkish buildings collapsed so ...

According to him, this "means that Turkey has room for fiscal spending, even if that means a sizeable increase in the public debt ratio." "Turkey will look at a few weeks of reprieve, but after that it will be more back to business on the foreign policy side." For now, Western allies and countries from around the world are sending aid and rescue teams to help with Turkey's disaster relief efforts. Turkey has a public debt-to-GDP ratio of around 34%, which is very low compared to the U.S. "The positive side is that Turkey has fiscal space," Ulgen said. "And the other issue of course, is the buildings and which ones have gone down. Internationally, Turkey's future affects the war in Ukraine, given Erdogan's role as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia. Rescue efforts continue to be the top priority, with some 25,000 deployed in Turkey and thousands more sent in from overseas — but a bitter winter storm now threatens the lives of the survivors and of those still trapped under rubble. The result of that election — whether current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stays in power or not — has massive consequences for Turkey's population, economy, currency, and democracy. One major emerging markets guru, Mark Mobius of Mobius Capital Partners LLP, remains bullish despite the earthquake disaster and economic problems. So Erdogan's lost control of the narrative." Its infrastructure is heavily depleted, and the country remains under Western sanctions.

The first earthquake to hit the Turkey-Syria border region struck shortly after 4am, affecting dozens of towns and cities already devastated by war, crippled by ...

“The district is in a grave condition,” she told the BBC. The European Union mobilised search-and-rescue teams to help local teams dig through the rubble and even Russian president Vladimir Putin said his country was “ready to provide assistance”, as did Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.READ MORE Tangshan, China, 28 July 1976 The coal-mining city 110km east of Beijing was all but destroyed in when a 7.5 quake known as the Great Tangshan Earthquake hit. Suzan Sahi of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party is based in one of the quake-hit cities. “It’s been so many hours and the rescue work hasn’t started. We lay still and waited for the shaking to finish. “The electricity was off. “Now we are having to deal with this.” Our house was full of broken glass. More than 15 000 people had lost their lives and thousands are still trapped under the rubble. In one town, sobbing relatives watched as rescuers tried to reach people whose voices could be heard within a ruined hospital. Several aftershocks followed – then, nine hours later, came another quake on the same fault line.

Over 12,000 people in Turkey and Syria, following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that slammed into the region on Monday, according to multiple reports, ...

The [Moment Magnitude Scale](https://www.mtu.edu/geo/community/seismology/learn/earthquake-measure/) measures the strength, or magnitude, of an earthquake, replacing the outdated Richter scale. The [Modified Mercalli](https://www.mtu.edu/geo/community/seismology/learn/earthquake-measure/) Index measures an earthquake’s intensity by considering the severity of the shaking and the amount of damage relative to factors like building construction and soil composition. [8.6](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official20120411083836720_20/impact), 2, Sumatra, Indonesia (April 11, 2012) [8.6](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official20050328160936530_30/executive), 1,300, Nias-Sumele, Indonesia (March 28, 2005) [8.6](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official19500815140934_30/impact), 780, Tibet (August 8, 1950) [8.8](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official20100227063411530_30/impact), 523, Quirihue, Chile (February 27, 2010) [8.7](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official19650204050122_30/executive), Rat Islands, Alaska (February 4, 1985) [9](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official19521104165830_30/impact), Kamchatka, Russia (November 4, 1952) [9.1](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official20110311054624120_30/impact), 15,700,Tohoku, Japan (March 11, 2011) [6.8](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp0003pmm/impact), Spitak, Armenia (December 7, 1988) [9.2](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official19640328033616_30/impact), 131, Prince William Sound, Alaska (March 27, 1964) [34,000](https://old.iranintl.com/en/iran-in-brief/after-17-years-iran-finally-announces-34000-died-bam-earthquake#:~:text=The%20head%20of%20Iran's%20Crisis,city%20of%20Bam%20is%20located.), [6.6](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000cg2d/impact), Bam, Iran, (December 26, 2003): The government released official deaths in 2020.

The whole country has mobilized to provide help to the victims of the devastating earthquakes that transpired Monday in southeast Türkiye. Here's how we...

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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.

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?

Fault line broken in Türkiye is nearly 350 km long, covering very large area, says Lebanese scientist - Anadolu Agency.

On an alleged tsunami threat to Türkiye and neighboring countries, he said: "In order for a post-earthquake tsunami to occur in the region, the earthquake’s base must be on the coast. [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. "The fault line that broke in Türkiye is nearly 350 kilometers (217.5 miles) long. I’m talking about the eastern part of the fault line. "There is no activity in almost half of the fault line. It’s unpredictable when there will be activity in this part.

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.

Earthquakes strike at a moment's notice. Here are seven steps you can take to help prepare your family, according to emergency and disaster preparedness ...

Pack a bag of necessities that you can grab on your way out of the house if you have to evacuate. Provencio says a flashlight is good to have in case the power goes out, and heavy-duty gloves can help if you need to clear debris like glass. It's not an alternative to storing consumable water, but a great additional tip: Gonzalez says to fill your bathtub and sinks with water immediately after the quake. If you live alone, that means you need a total of three gallons stored in your home. The water could be contaminated due to a water line break. You can add them to your Google Drive or iCloud, for example. You should also bolt larger furniture like shelving units and TVs to the wall. So examine your home and ask yourself: What could be a potential hazard to your safety? [Alyssa Provencio](https://www3.uco.edu/centraldirectory/profiles/945410), a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma who teaches emergency and disaster management. A major earthquake in California, for example, may damage cell towers and knock out communication services for days, according to You could also meet at home if that's a convenient location, says Benthien. Whatever you do, do not stand in a door frame, says Gonzalez.

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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Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria devastated the region and led to thousands of casualties. Organizations are mobilizing to provide assistance.

[José Andres](https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1622514177465090048) is mobilizing the World Central Kitchen to send chefs and support to the country as soon as possible. This does not include the [4.1 million Syrian refugees](https://www.mercycorps.org/press-room/releases/devastating-earthquake-turkey-northwestsyria) that were already facing food insecurity in Northern Syria. Andres recently announced that he is en route to Istanbul to aid teams that are [already on the ground](https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1622965049550831621) in affected areas. Geological Survey](https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/magnitude-78-earthquake-nurdagi-turkey). The Turkish government has not publicly announced the damage to agricultural land impacted by the earthquakes at this point. These cascading weather events including earthquakes and their aftershocks caused widespread damage to apartment buildings, homes and [energy infrastructure](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/64533954?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=63e0e11a2e179876cd7c0f8d%26Fires%20along%20gas%20pipelines%20apparently%20triggered%20by%20quake%262023-02-06T13%3A29%3A57.247Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:e3260700-7f73-4524-8041-fb90c67c3252&pinned_post_asset_id=63e0e11a2e179876cd7c0f8d&pinned_post_type=share). Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement? The necessary investigations have been made to prevent them from creating any problems.” These investigations are ongoing, but the Ministry did not report significant damage thus far. [half](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.ZS?locations=TR) of the country is devoted to agriculture and approximately one in five Turkish citizens work in this industry. [World Food Programme](https://www.wfp.org/stories/turkiye-syria-earthquakes-wfp-stands-ready-support-affected-communities-death-toll-rises) teams are also on the ground in both Syria and Turkey, having operated in each country since 1964 and 2012, respectively. Many nonprofit and volunteer organizations are providing immediate food assistance. [Turkish Ministry of Health](https://www.saglik.gov.tr/TR,94710/bakan-koca-hatay-afet-koordinasyon-merkezinde-aciklamalarda-bulundu.html) and [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras).

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 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.

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

News and Press Release in English on Türkiye and 1 other country about Health and Earthquake; published on 9 Feb 2023 by HOPE.

Project HOPE first started providing medical support in Türkiye in 1987 and has responded to previous crises there including the 1999 earthquake and Syrian Refugee response in 2013-2015. Learn more about Project HOPE’s response to the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes [here](https://www.projecthope.org/earthquake-in-turkey-syria-how-to-help/02/2023/). [17,000 people](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/09/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-count-updates/) killed, and tens of thousands injured, including over 3,000 in Syria, a country wrecked by more than 11 years of civil war. “We are preparing for an arduous road ahead that will require a coordinated, robust and sustained international response to get the impacted communities back on their feet,” said Arlan Fuller, Project HOPE’s Director of Emergency Response and Preparedness. “Currently, we are coordinating with the shelters that are housing those who have lost their homes and assessing the long- and short-term health care needs, including the mental health needs, of the tens of thousands of people that have been injured.” To address these concerns, Project HOPE’s logistics teams are also coordinating the shipment and distribution of emergency health kits, medical supplies, and urgent medicines to the affected areas.

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.

On February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck central southern Türkiye, close to the Syrian border, followed by dozens of violent aftershocks.

The United States is committed to providing humanitarian assistance to help the Syrian people recover from this disaster, just as we have been their leading humanitarian donor since the start of the war – providing more than $15 billion to the Syrian people in Syria and throughout the region. We are determined to do all that we can to help those affected by these earthquakes in the days, weeks, and months ahead.” To date, the United States has deployed more than 150 search-and-rescue personnel, along with teams of canines, to join the life-saving efforts in Türkiye. We extend our condolences to the families of those affected and are assessing our comprehensive response options.” Secretary Blinken continued, “I have directed my team to remain in close contact with our Turkish allies and our humanitarian partners in the coming days to determine what the region needs. Agency for International Development Urban Search and Rescue teams arrived in Incirlik to help with rescue and recovery efforts after the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye.

John Morrison, who is in Adiyaman, calls earthquakes' aftermath 'widespread devastation' - Anadolu Agency.

Grateful to John and all the American search and rescue and aid workers who are on the ground undertaking lifesaving work right now," Sullivan said on Twitter. [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. "The U.S. This country is incredibly resilient. "It's certainly widespread devastation. Türkiye is an "incredibly resilient" country in the face of the devastating earthquakes that occurred this week, a US aid worker said Thursday.

“The way the floor began shaking under my feet made me think I was back in Syria,” photographer Abdulsalam Jarroud, 24, a Syrian refugee originally from ...

Excavators gingerly pick through the rubble of a collapsed building in central Gaziantep trying to find and extract people still believed to be alive. As Syrian Turkmen from Aleppo, the brothers experienced the siege of their hometown in 2016, which prompted them to escape to Türkiye. Bakier Soulo (right), 28, and his younger brother sleep rough with their families in a public square in the old city of Gaziantep. Jarroud and other Syrians say the tents remind them of the camps for internally displaced people that are still scattered around Syria. In Gaziantep, the shattered buildings, omnipresence of death, and relief tents erected to house thousands of people who have been made homeless dredge up difficult memories for many more than just Jarroud. Household items left on tables; people sleeping in cars; people huddled together eating over mattresses and blankets on the floor; families with their few belongings collected in plastic bags: These are all things he has witnessed before. It took [three days](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/9/un-aid-convoy-syria-turkey-earthquake) for the first aid convoy to reach the rebel-controlled northwest. Every crumbled building, every helicopter sound, and every after-tremor reminds Jarroud of his life in Idlib. Much of his family still lives there, and they were also affected by the earthquake, but are fortunately safe. [20,000](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/earthquake-deaths-surpass-19000-as-survivors-struggle-to-stay-warm-fed) across the two countries – a number expected [to grow](https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-science-tsunamis-syria-turkey-c676f6a4fa0bf57a111349ca302c27e5). Civilians in Türkiye told The New Humanitarian official assistance has been scarce: They say they have been left to fend for themselves through local, self-organised efforts to supply food, heating, and tents. Already, the disaster is the [deadliest](https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-science-tsunamis-syria-turkey-c676f6a4fa0bf57a111349ca302c27e5) earthquake in more than a decade.

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

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

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.”

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 event will be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 10 at Perry World House, Penn's foreign policy think tank.

[is also hosting](https://www.instagram.com/upennmec/) a solidarity and strategy meeting on Friday at 5 p.m. [AKUT](https://www.akut.org.tr/en), a search and rescue association in Turkey, and Syrian American Medical Society are the recipients of the donations contributed through the Penn students' fundraising efforts. "The people of Turkey and Syria now desperately need our help." 7, Penn Arab Student Society, [Fenjan: The Middle East Journal](https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/10/penn-fenjan-middle-east-journal-covid-politics), Penn Muslim Students Association, Penn Afghan Students Association, and Penn Students Against the Occupation announced that they were gathering donations that would go toward relief efforts "on the ground" in Turkey and Syria. It follows a pair of [earthquakes](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64540696) that struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Feb. [magnitudes](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/08/how-big-was-turkey-syria-earthquake/) of 7.8 and 7.5 — struck the Middle East, there has been an international outpouring of support, including at Penn.