BREAKING UPDATE: Over 500 people are dead with thousands more injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria
At a news conference, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay confirmed at least 284 had been killed in the country.
In northwest Syria, the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense described the situation in the rebel-held region as “disastrous,” adding that entire buildings had collapsed and that people were trapped under the rubble. The civil defense urged people to evacuate buildings to gather in open areas. Anadolu published a photo of a pancaked building, window coverings exposed to the air, furniture crushed, water fixtures detached from plumbing. Its location was not made clear.
The USGS said housing in the region is often composed of earthquake-vulnerable construction and materials, including unreinforced brick masonry and low-rise concrete frame structures without ducts. In Syria’s rebel-held northwest that borders Turkey several buildings collapsed, according to the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense.declared an unofficial state of emergencyA computer-generated analysis by the USGS PAGER program, for Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, determined the number of deaths could surpass 100 and reach as many as 1,000. It also calculated losses could amount to $1 billion or more.A 7.
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