As of Feb. 16, ten days after the initial 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region, more than 41,000 people are known to have died.
Here is a look at other deadly earthquakes to strike over the past decade. Tens of thousands of people have been killed or injured across portions of Syria and Turkey since the earthquake struck, with many trapped in buildings that collapsed into heaps of rubble. The countries were already known for having the"largest refugee population in the world," according to the U.N. refugee agency, as Turkey serves as a host to more than 3.
Boys resting in daylight the day after the earthquake, on rubble of what was the Maju Dega temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 26, 2015. in the natural disaster, according to the United Nations. The devastation in Indonesia in 2018 stemmed mostly from the triggering of a tsunami. On Sept. 28 that year, a
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