In Syria, already shattered by more than a decade of civil war, most deaths have been in the north-west, where the UN said 4,525 people were killed. Many of them are sheltering in camps or exposed to freezing temperatures and struggling to get food or clean water. They include 226,000 women in Turkey and 130,000 in Syria, about 38,800 of whom will deliver in the next month. They said people had been injured by falling debris and crowd crushes, as well as jumping from elevated positions in fear of the destruction.Īmong the survivors of the earthquakes are about 356,000 pregnant women who urgently need access to health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) has said. In rebel-held Syria, local search and rescue services and the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, reported the latest earthquakes had damaged buildings across a number of cities and towns. People react after the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Antakya. Those who had remained in Hatay for two weeks after the first quakes said they had done so out of fear of losing their homes entirely, or a sense that they had nowhere else to go. “Is there going to be another aftershock?” she asked. “I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet,” she said, crying as she held her seven-year-old son in her arms. Muna al-Omar, a resident of Antakya, said she was in a tent in a park when the 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit. Mounds of debris and discarded furniture lined the dark, abandoned streets. In Samandag, where the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority AFAD reported one person dead, residents said more buildings collapsed but most of the town had already fled after the initial earthquakes. “Some buildings were destroyed, there are some who are trapped under the rubble,” he said. The mayor of Hatay, Lütfü Savaş, immediately raised concerns that the latest quakes had caused yet more destruction across the province, and potentially further loss of human life in a place already dealing with some of the worst devastation in Turkey. We heard what sounded like more buildings collapsing again, and more damage to our house.”ĭashcam footage captures moment fresh earthquake hits Turkey – video “I was lying on the floor, and as I was lying there another earthquake happened. In the Hatay town of Ekinci, Ata Koşar – who lost his brother, sister-in-law and nephew when their nearby luxury apartment block collapsed during the earthquakes two weeks ago – said: “It was the first day we’d decided to stay in our house as it’s just one floor, and I was using our heater to try to stay warm, demonstrating what to do in case another earthquake happened. Turkey’s disaster management agency AFAD said the epicentre of the larger quake was below the Defne district of Hatay, in a region where many have complained of a lacklustre government response to the first earthquakes. It was centred near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. The larger quake struck at a depth of just 2km (1.2 miles), the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, potentially magnifying its impact at ground level. Location of 20 February Turkish earthquake
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