Rescuers in Turkey and Syria dug with their bare hands through the freezing night hunting for survivors among the rubble of thousands of buildings felled in a series of violent earthquakes. | AFP
“We thought it was the apocalypse,” said Melisa Salman, a 23-year-old reporter. “That was the first time we have ever experienced anything like that.”
The initial earthquake was so large it was felt as far away as Greenland, and the impact is big enough to have sparked a global response. Some of the heaviest devastation occurred near the quake’s epicenter between Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, where entire city blocks lay in ruins under gathering snow.Monday’s first earthquake struck at 4:17am at a depth of about 18 kilometers near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, which is home to around two million people, the US Geological Survey said.
The Syrian health ministry reported damage across the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Tartus, where Russia is leasing a naval facility. The UN cultural agency Unesco expressed fears over heavy damage in two cities on its heritage list — Aleppo in Syria and Diyarbakir in Turkey.
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