Turkey, Syria Earthquake
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center announced that a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck eastern Turkey today, Tuesday, at a depth of 46 km.
In addition, international aid is expected to begin arriving in Turkey and northern Syria on Tuesday, but the race against time and cold continues to bring back survivors of three violent earthquakes in northern Syria on Monday, which killed thousands.
The result is likely to increase
More than 4,890 people were killed in Turkey, with 3,381 dead, the latest official tally said, twenty hours after the 7.8-magnitude first tremors also hit Lebanon, Cyprus and northern Iraq. General Authority for Disaster Management (AFAD), and more than 1,440 in Syria.
Rescue teams struggled in the cold and in heavy rain or snow, sometimes using their hands, to rescue those trapped in the rubble. A seven-year-old girl was rescued 20 hours after the quake in southern Turkey’s Hatay, on the border with Syria, an AFP spokesman at the scene said.
Bad weather
Bad weather in the Turkish Anatolia region is hampering the work of rescue teams and adding to the suffering of lives suffering from the cold under and around tents set up around fires in the affected areas.
According to the US Geological Survey, the first earthquake struck at 4:17 (01:17 GMT) Monday at a depth of 17.9 kilometers and was centered in the Pazardık region of the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras (southeast), 60 kilometers from the Syrian border.
Dozens of vibrations
Dozens of aftershocks preceded a new magnitude 7.5 earthquake at 10:24 GMT in southeastern Turkey, 4 km from the city of Ikinosu.
