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Only a fraction of the help needed has arrived here so far. it makes each day feel like a fresh struggle for survival. anna foster, bbc news, marash. yesterdays earthquakes were the biggest in the region since 1939. the frontier region between turkey and syria is one of the worlds most active areas in terms of seismic movement. the initial earthquakes triggered dozens of aftershocks all along whats known as the east anatalonian faultline. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has travelled to th...

That are illustrative of how devastating these could be. luckily, a lot are major earthquakes but this one, 7.8, in 1939, 17,000 associated with that. this earthquake is shallow, that means the effects are felt much more severely, than if it were much farther down in the core of the earth. all right. this is the vicinity of that earthquake, 7.8 magnitude. as i mentioned, theyre going to feel the aftereffects. people were sleeping in their beds when they were jolted by this horrific earthquake th...

Working to get people of the rubble. with the cold weather, time of the essence, because people were not survive in this kind of cold. were getting messages from the emergency management saying people unhoused at the moment are going to single-story buildings like schools and morphs. gas has been shut off to avoid fires. but electricity and mobile connections are sparse in this very wide swath of turkey in a densely populated part of the country. gaziantep, part of the epicenter, 82 people are d...

Syria as well. here in turkey i can tell you authorities are now in this response stage right now trying to get all sorts of support teams from the countrys disaster management agency deployed to the region to deal with the search and rescue operations. of course very, very difficult and challenging time for them. this happening right in the middle of this winter storm where a lot of parts of southeastern turkey have been impacted by this snowstorm. this also happening overnight where you would ...

When turkey had a massive earthquake, 17,000 people died and that was my ballpark but in the last hour, president erdogan has competed to the turkish earthquake in 1939, where 32,000 people died. if hes making that comparison, i think we are aware ofjust what a disaster turkey and northern syria is facing. turkeys president erdogan said 45 countries had offered assistance. lets take a look at how world leaders have reacted to whats happened. uk prime minister rishi sunak... 0laf scholz, chancell...

This as the biggest disaster his country has faced in about a century. a disaster like no other. this country or syria in terms of a natural disaster has faced in decades and decades since that 1939 devastating earthquake here in turkey. a 7.8 magnitude earthquake striking at about 4:00 in the morning right in the middle of the night as people are indoors, in their homes sleeping. scenes of utter devastation, we are seeing coming from the turkey as well. syria the epicenter of this earthquake wa...

Ofjust 11 miles. since 1970, this region has seen three earthquakes greater than magnitude six. this is magnitude seven, nearly magnitude eight, this was a big one. this was an earthquake such as we dont get more than about 20 of every year somewhere in the world. so this was big, and it was also quite shallow. if the rupture is closer to the surface, you get greater shaking of the ground surface than an earthquake of the same energy that happens at a greater depth. so it is a particularly nasty...

As the plates grind past each other, tension gradually builds up along the fault line before its released, resulting in an earthquake. the east anatolian fault line is around 250 miles long, but whats made the quake so deadly is how shallow it is. it happened at a depth ofjust 11 miles. since 1970, this region has seen three earthquakes greater than magnitude six. this is magnitude seven, nearly magnitude eight, this was a big one. this was an earthquake such as we dont get more than about 20 of...

Todays earthquake, the first earthquake, magnitude 7.7, was the second biggest earthquake in its history of turkey. 1939, collected more than 30,000 people. well remembered by our audience in 1999, there was a population near the countrys biggest, killed more than 17,000 people. turkish government has collected so—called 88 billion l, $4.7 billion. this was directed to the treasury. thats why lots of people in social media are criticising the government. in

Several tectonic plates, the country sits amidst several tectonic plates, and there are two major fault lines where they meet. the east anatolian fault line is where the quake struck. as the plates grind past each other, tension gradually builds up along the fault line before its released, resulting in an earthquake. the east anatolian fault line is around 250 miles long, but whats made the quake so deadly is how shallow it is. it happened at a depth ofjust 11 miles. since 1970, this region has ...