Drone video shows massive destruction in southern Turkey.
Two people in the Turkey province of Sanliurfa have been pulled from collapsed buildings by rescuers 18 and 22 hours after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country, the Anadolu news agency in Turkey reported., which is state-run, were said to show a person being rescued from a collapsed six-story building 18 hours after the earthquake and a woman being rescued 22 hours after it.
"Shallow” earthquakes are considered those with depth of 70 kilometers or less, or around 43½ miles, according to the USGS. Intermediate are those between around 43½ miles and 186½ miles, and deep are between that and nearly 435 miles, according to the agency. “With the death toll already in the thousands, time is of the essence to get assistance to Türkiye and Syria,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Monday in a statement, using another spelling by which Turkey is known.
Hulusi Ibrahim said that he spent three hours with his wife after"the building collapsed on us" but that she never showed any response, according to Reuters video from the scene.
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