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  • Fresh 5.3 magnitude quake hits Turkey as nation begins rebuilding houses

    Another earthquake of magnitude 5.3 hit the central Turkish province of Nigde on Saturday because the nation started rebuilding houses following this month’s devastating earthquakes. 

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 25, 2023 17:07 IST

    Series of earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria this month, leaving a path of destruction in its wake (Reuters photograph)

    By India Today World Desk: Another earthquake struck Turkey on Saturday, simply weeks after the border areas of the nation have been devastated by a bigger quake that killed greater than 50,000 folks and broken or destroyed a whole lot of hundreds of houses.

    Today’s quake, this time with a magnitude of 5.3, was centred close to the central Turkish province of Nigde, the Turkish catastrophe company mentioned.

    The quake hit on the day Turkey started its work to rebuild houses for the 1.5 million individuals who have been displaced.

    More than one lakh buildings containing over 5 lakh residences collapsed or have been severely broken within the February 6 earthquake and 40 aftershocks, Reuters reported.

    READ | Turkey begins to rebuild after earthquakes go away 1.5 million folks homeless

    The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) introduced the dying rely in Turkey as a result of earthquakes rose to 44,218 on Friday evening. With Syria’s newest introduced dying rely of 5,914, the mixed dying rely within the two nations rose to above 50,000.

    ALSO READ | Turkey earthquake splits village in two, sinks homes 13 ft

    Facing election warmth inside months, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to rebuild houses inside a yr, though specialists have mentioned the authorities ought to put security earlier than velocity. Some buildings that have been meant to face up to tremors crumbled within the newest earthquakes.

    The authorities has additionally dispatched tents for the various who are actually homeless.

    MASSIVE REBUILD

    The Turkish authorities’s preliminary plan now’s to construct 2,00,000 residences and 70,000 village homes at a value of no less than $15 billion, Reuters reported. The United Nations Development Programme mentioned it estimated that the destruction has left 1.5 million folks homeless, with 500,000 new houses wanted.

    ALSO READ | Hasty rebuild might go away Turkey susceptible to one other quake catastrophe

    It mentioned it had requested $113.5 million from the $1 billion in funds appealed for by the United Nations final week, including that it might focus this cash on clearing away mountains of rubble.

    ALSO READ | UN appeals for $1 billion to assist Turkey quake survivors

    Many quake survivors have left the area of southern Turkey that was hit by the quake or have been settled in tents, container houses and different government-sponsored lodging.

    (With Reuters enter)

    Published On:

    Feb 25, 2023

  • Turkey-Syria earthquake: Survivors cheat dying for 200 hours, provide ray of hope

    More than per week after a robust earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing greater than 40,000 individuals, survivors are nonetheless being pulled out from the rubble.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 15, 2023 15:22 IST

    A toy bear is seen on a pile of bricks and concrete within the aftermath of a lethal earthquake in Elbistan, Turkey (Photo: Reuters)

    By Gaurav C Sawant: Survivors are nonetheless being pulled from the rubble in Turkey and Syria, greater than per week after a robust earthquake toppled 1000’s of houses, killing greater than 41,000 individuals. Survivors within the quake-hit nations are being pulled out from the ruins after 200 hours, providing a glimmer of hope of discovering extra survivors.

    The catastrophe has ravaged cities in each nations, leaving many survivors homeless in near-freezing winter temperatures. Voices may very well be heard from beneath the rubble. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a state of emergency in ten provinces for 3 months.

    Two individuals had been rescued alive from the rubble in Turkey’s Hatay on Tuesday, eight days after a devastating earthquake hit the nation.

    Rescuers had been seen transporting a person and a girl who had been caught below the rubble.

    More than per week after the earthquake, the main target of the help effort has shifted to serving to individuals now struggling with out shelter or sufficient meals within the bitter chilly.

    In Syria, a 65-year-old survivor waved to rescuers after being trapped for 208 hours below the rubble.

    “We’re coming, we will save you,” rescuers instructed the 65-year-old survivor trapped below rubble for eight days.

    Rescue footage from the Kocaeli Municipality Fire Department confirmed a 65-year-old Syrian survivor trapped below the rubble for over 208 hours in Hatay’s Antakya district, waved to rescuers after being discovered alive on Tuesday.

    ALSO READ | Smell of lifeless throughout: Turkey-Syria quake toll touches 41,000, voices nonetheless being heard from below rubble

    A Syrian man and a younger lady had been rescued from the rubble of their collapsed constructing on the eight day since a devastating earthquake struck the area, Reuters tv confirmed.

    Emergency employees hoped additional members of the family can be pulled out alive quickly. The pair’s rescue takes the variety of survivors pulled from ruins on Tuesday to 9.

    On Monday, rescuers pulled a 13-year-old boy out from below the rubble of a collapsed constructing in Turkey’s southern Hatay province on

    The teenager held a rescuer’s hand as he was positioned on a stretcher, head braced, and lined for heat, earlier than he was moved into an ambulance.

    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has acknowledged issues within the preliminary response to the 7.8 magnitude quake that struck early on Feb. 6 however has mentioned the scenario is now below management.

    “We are facing one of the greatest natural disasters not only in our country but also in the history of humanity,” Erdogan mentioned in a televised speech in Ankara.

    ALSO READ | Rescuers pull out extra alive in Turkey at the same time as specialists say ‘window to seek out survivors closing’

    Published On:

    Feb 15, 2023

  • How mapping tech, satellite tv for pc imagery got here to the rescue in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

    A reside internet map that comprises geospatial knowledge associated to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria is getting used to offer an outline of constructions that have been broken by the quake.

    An aerial picture reveals collapsed buildings in Antakya after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the nation’s southeast. (AFP picture)

    By Bidisha Saha, Dipti Yadav: Real-time synthetic intelligence (AI), Geographic Information System (GIS) and a multi-dimensional view of the quake-hit panorama in Turkey is now being extensively employed to visualise and drive aid operations. This features a detailed learning of the topography to establish the buildings which have been broken, fissures which have emerged as seen in satellite tv for pc imagery, and dashing rescuers to the world for fast help. For this goal, the United Nations Satellite Center has additionally activated its emergency mapping service.

    The Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) staff of India Today makes an attempt to elucidate by examples how these publicly accessible satellite tv for pc imageries have been used to not solely map the disintegrated constructions, but additionally within the institution of aid camps within the aftermath of the disaster.

    The Geographical Factors

    Turkey, positioned on the Anatolian tectonic aircraft, is a seismic zone that has lengthy been excessive on scientists’ radar. The area is sandwiched between two different tectonic plates – it’s pushed from the south by the Arabian plates and additional blocked by the Eurasian plate within the north- this creates the North Anatolian faultline which strikes by at the very least 2 cm per 12 months. However, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake is the results of the motion of the East Anatolian faultline, positioned within the southeast of the nation. Tremors have been felt throughout a large area so far as Cyprus, Lebanon and Egypt.

    (Photo Credits: Mike Norton/Wikipedia)A big landslide, round 200 meters broad, found by satellite tv for pc imagery close to Islahiye, Gaziantep Province (Source: @WxNB_ | Maxar Technologies)

    The epicentre of the 11-mile-deep (18 kilometres) earthquake was alongside the southern border of Turkey simply west of the town of Gaziantep as per knowledge collected by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake, the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) introduced through Twitter on February 6 that it has activated its emergency mapping service, which “provides satellite image analysis during humanitarian emergencies related to disasters, complex emergencies and conflict situations.”

    Analysis of Geospatial Data

    A reside internet map that comprises geospatial knowledge associated to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria may be discovered on UNOSAT’s web site. The map gives an outline of constructions that have been broken, or doubtlessly broken, by the earthquake, which might then be utilized by humanitarian aid and catastrophe response teams so as to reply shortly to the still-unfolding disaster.

    ALSO READ | Massive earthquake in India? No certainty.. it’s a likelihood, says Dutch researcher

    India Today’s OSINT staff has mapped all of the disintegrated buildings seen in Maxar’s newly-taken satellite tv for pc imagery of particular areas of Antakya metropolis, which permits us to visualise the destruction within the aftermath of the strongly-felt tremors.

    Number of buildings visibly broken in Antakya (Source: Maxar Technologies)

    The aerial photographs captured by the worldwide information company Reuters, which when mixed with Planet Labs’ satellite tv for pc imagery, has additional helped in outlining the depth of injury incurred on the Turkish metropolis of Kahramanmaras. More particularly the neighbourhood across the Kahramanmaras Kultur Park had been the one to witness probably the most furore of the catastrophe.

    Before and after aerial views taken from drone of the town of Kahramanmaras (Source: Planet Labs, Reuters)

    Using the satellite tv for pc photographs and different open-source knowledge obtainable, we’ve recognized the institutions of numerous aid camps throughout a number of components of Turkey as captured within the high-resolution imagery of Planet Labs.

    Groups of rescue camps arrange in components of Kahramanmaras, Turkoglu and Nurdagi (Source: Planet Labs PBC)Satellite Images Show East Anatolian Fault Zone Plunged Into Darkness

    A fleeting look on the NASA Worldview nighttime satellite tv for pc imagery reveals the large energy outages ensuing from the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. The area throughout the East Anatolian Fault Zone has been completely plunged into darkness because the cities wrestle to fulfill power calls for amidst the colossal injury to their infrastructure.

    IDF Intelligence finding victims

    IDF (Israel Defense Forces) air pressure intelligence Unit 9900 is utilizing its “cutting-edge satellite capabilities and analytical visual training” to help with ongoing rescue efforts in Turkey, the army introduced on Thursday evening. It has despatched 15 plane full of a whole bunch of tons of medical and different provides, together with a 150-person rescue staff and a 230-person medical area hospital staff. Unit 9900 is offering troops with a way of augmented actuality, real-time synthetic intelligence and a multi-dimensional view of the quake-hit panorama.

    Crisis deepens in Northwestern Syria

    The humanitarian disaster in war-torn Syria has additional deepened after the highly effective earthquake on February 6 that led to large destruction, particularly within the cities of Bisnia and Harem. The collection of tremors led to cracks in a close-by dam, filling the city of Al-Tloul in northwest Syria, near the Turkish-Syrian border, with knee-high water. Also, heavy rains over the previous week hindered rescue efforts and likewise barreled by the dam, forcing the residents emigrate from the town and transfer to safer areas.

    While Turkey obtained big worldwide help virtually within the aftermath of the quake, Syrian folks have been devoid of a lot help and obtained a United Nations help convoy consisting of six vans solely on Thursday. This stands in stark distinction with large worldwide aid operations within the neighbouring nation.

    Moreover, the political circumstances in Syria have made it troublesome for help to enter a area beneath the patchwork of regional and world powers, as most nations are reluctant to cope with the Assad authorities together with the United States. As per a Reuters report, President Bashar al-Assad who’s backed by Russia and Iran has regained management of a lot of the nation, however hardline opposition teams and Turkey-backed fighters management the northwest, the place the United Nations says 4 million folks wanted help even earlier than the earthquake.

    The authorities says overseas nations “should respect Syria’s sovereignty and that aid for any part of the country should enter via territory under government control.” However, help for the rebel-held northwest has for years been delivered throughout the border from neighbouring Turkey – Bab-Al-Hawa. But the method is tedious as the world managed largely by a hardline Islamist group has been adamant and earthquake help from government-held components of Syria into the opposition-controlled territory has been held up by “approval issues” with one hardline group.

    Deliveries resumed on Thursday however solely included meals, medical tools and shelter – not the excavators and different tools that rescuers desperately want to avoid wasting lives.

    ALSO READ | Turkey earthquake: Over 5,000 our bodies buried at mass cemetery, relations hunt for graves
    ALSO READ | Syria earthquake kills 25 of household, lone survivor says ‘had come to metropolis in quest of shelter’

    Published On:

    Feb 13, 2023

  • Dhanyawad dost, says Turkey as one other batch of emergency kits leaves from India

    Turkey known as India ‘dost’ and thanked the nation for sending emergency kits for the earthquake survivors.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 13, 2023 12:21 IST

    The Indian authorities, below its ongoing Operation Dost, has despatched a number of search and rescue groups, supplies, medicines, and gear in Turkey. (Photo: Twitter/ @firatsunel)

    By India Today Web Desk: Ambassador of Turkey to India Fırat Sunel, on Monday, thanked India for sending emergency kits for the survivors of one of many deadliest disasters that has killed over 34,000 until now.

    Taking to Twitter, he mentioned, “Thank you India! Each tent, each blanket or sleeping bag are of vital importance for the hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors.”

    THANK YOU INDIA! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
    Each tent, every blanket or sleeping bag are of significant significance for the lots of of 1000’s of earthquake survivors. https://t.co/v9rsXtdzjL
    — Fırat Sunel फिरात सुनेल فرات صونال (@firatsunel) February 13, 2023

    The official Twitter account of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in New Delhi additionally thanked India for its assist.

    ALSO READ | Week after Turkey-Syria quake, hope to search out survivors fades as toll crosses 34,000 | Top developments

    The two deadliest earthquakes that hit Turkey-Syria on February 6 have left 1000’s of individuals homeless and with none hope. Several nations, together with India, have despatched assist and reduction supplies to the quake-hit nations.

    The Indian authorities, below its ongoing Operation Dost, has despatched a number of search and rescue groups, supplies, medicines, gear and has arrange a subject hospital in Turkey.

    At least 5,000 our bodies have been buried as of Sunday within the mass cemetery of Turkey’s Maras. A big a part of the pine forest was cleared to dig mass graves to bury the our bodies recovered from the rubble of buildings flattened by a sequence of earthquakes within the nation final week.

    ALSO READ | Turkey earthquake: Over 5,000 our bodies buried at mass cemetery, kinfolk hunt for graves

    Edited By:

    Manisha Pandey

    Published On:

    Feb 13, 2023

  • Tukey earthquake: Over 5,000 our bodies buried at mass cemetery, family hunt for graves

    Turkish authorities saved digging graves in a forest at Maras because the variety of lifeless our bodies beneath the rubbles continued to develop.

    Ankara,UPDATED: Feb 12, 2023 23:40 IST

    Rescuers evacuate a lady saved from rubbles in Hatay. (Image: AFP)

    By Gaurav C Sawant: At least 5,000 our bodies have been buried as of Sunday within the mass cemetery of Turkey’s Maras. A big a part of the pine forest was cleared to dig mass graves to bury the our bodies recovered from the rubble of buildings flattened by a sequence of earthquakes within the nation final week.

    The native administration’s hearse vans saved bringing dozens of our bodies each jiffy all through the day.

    The family of the deceased struggled to search out the names and numbers on the graves, which had picket stubs as an alternative of tombstones. The machines have been put to work across the clock to dig extra graves.

    ALSO READ | Thousands flee from earthquake-hit areas in Turkey, airways supply free tickets

    Several makeshift tents have been arrange, and households are being helped to scrub our bodies and carry out prayers earlier than burial. The variety of graves was anticipated to rise considerably as extra areas had been dug.

    Rescue operations entered the seventh day on Sunday as rescuers scoured particles to search for survivors after a large earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing greater than 33,000 individuals in one of many area’s worst disasters for a century.

    The demise toll continues to rise amid widespread devastation and chilly as starvation and despair gripped a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals left homeless by the tremors. Several individuals trapped beneath the rubble had been rescued on Saturday evening.

    EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY, SYRIA

    Huge earthquakes struck Turkey, leaving over 33,000 individuals lifeless and several other thousand injured or displaced.

    The first quake, close to Gaziantep near the Syrian border, measured 7.8 in magnitude. The second occurred 9 hours later, and measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

    The earthquakes have wreaked devastation in Turkey and Syria, with search and rescue operations persevering with unabated since tragedy struck the 2 nations.

    ALSO READ | Turkey quake: 2 children pulled out alive after being trapped for five days beneath rubble | Ground Report

    Published On:

    Feb 12, 2023

  • Thousands flee from earthquake-hit areas in Turkey, airways provide free tickets

    Thousands of individuals fled from earthquake-hit areas in Turkey as airways supplied free tickets to safer locations.

    Ankara,UPDATED: Feb 12, 2023 17:57 IST

    Thousands assembled on the Gaziantep airport to go away for safer locations. (Photo: Reuters/File)

    By Gaurav C Sawant: Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines in Turkey on Sunday introduced free tickets for all these from affected areas to Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and different safer areas. All school and University hostels and a few resorts in vacationer resorts are being taken to accommodate affected individuals. Thousands of individuals from Gaziantep, Hatai, Nurdagi and Marash have left the affected space.

    Thousands assembled on the Gaziantep airport to go away for safer locations.

    Rescue operations entered the seventh day on Sunday as rescuers scoured particles to search for survivors after a large earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing greater than 28,000 individuals in one of many area’s worst disasters for a century.

    ASLO READ | 134 aftershocks: The floor beneath Turkish toes continued shaking for 2 days

    The dying toll continues to rise amid widespread devastation and chilly as starvation and despair gripped tons of of 1000’s of individuals left homeless by the tremors. Several individuals trapped below the rubble have been rescued on Saturday night time.

    The physique of an Indian nationwide was recovered from below the particles of a lodge in Malatya on Saturday. The Indian Embassy in Turkey knowledgeable that the physique of an Indian nationwide, recognized as Vijay Kumar, was discovered days after a number of earthquakes rocked Turkey.

    Vijay Kumar, who hailed from Kotdwar space of Pauri Garhwal District of Uttarakhand, labored in a Bengaluru firm. He was on a enterprise journey when earthquakes hit Turk

    EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY, SYRIA

    Huge earthquakes struck Turkey, leaving over 26,000 individuals useless and a number of other thousand injured or displaced.

    The first quake, close to Gaziantep near the Syrian border, measured 7.8 in magnitude. The second occurred 9 hours later, and measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

    The earthquakes have wreaked devastation in Turkey and Syria, with search and rescue operations persevering with unabated since tragedy struck the 2 nations.

    ALSO READ | Turkey quake: 2 children pulled out alive after being trapped for five days below rubble | Ground Report

    ey and Syria earlier this week.

    Published On:

    Feb 12, 2023

  • Chaos, our bodies and rubble: Over 100 hours and counting, survivors nonetheless being present in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

    Destroyed buildings are seen from above in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 (Photo: AP/File)

    By India Today Web Desk: Six days after highly effective earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, killing greater than 28,000 individuals and leaving thousands and thousands homeless, rescuers have been nonetheless pulling unlikely survivors from the ruins. It has been greater than 100 hours for the reason that tragedy struck and survivors are being pulled out from the rubble after one of many area’s worst pure disasters because the loss of life toll appears set to rise far greater.

    “There is chaos, rubble and bodies everywhere,” mentioned one, whose group had labored in a single day attempting to achieve a college trainer calling them from the rubble.

    Even although consultants say trapped individuals can survive in rubble and might dwell for every week or extra, the chances of discovering extra survivors are shortly waning. The loss of life toll from an enormous earthquake in Turkey and Syria will “double or more” from its present degree of 28,000, UN reduction chief Martin Griffiths has mentioned.

    Here’s what has occurred thus far:

    Three earthquakes occurred one after the opposite in Turkey on February 6. The first quake and probably the most highly effective one thus far struck southern Turkey, close to the northern border of Syria. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake had its epicentre within the metropolis of Gaziantep in Turkey. Gaziantep is residence to thousands and thousands of people that have fled the civil struggle in Syria and different conflicts. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan known as the earthquake the “disaster of the century”.

    RESCUERS FACE LOOTING, HYGIENE BURDEN

    Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkey and Syria on Saturday. Volunteers struggling to search out ever fewer survivors within the quake-hit Turkish metropolis of Antakya mentioned ransacking and hygiene issues have been including to their daunting process, reported Reuters. While some rescuers complained that looters smashed home windows of automobiles and carried knives, others echoed issues about hygiene, particularly inadequate numbers of working toilets.

    “If people don’t die here under the rubble, they’ll die from injuries, if not, they will die from infection. There is no toilet here. It is a big problem,” a rescuer advised Reuters, including that there have been not sufficient physique luggage for all of the lifeless.

    “The bodies are all over the roads, with only blankets on them,” she added.

    FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES OF TURKEY-SYRIA EARTHQUAKE HERE

    SURVIVORS GIVE HARROWING ACCOUNTS OF EARTHQUAKES

    As frantic rescue operations proceed, survivors of Monday’s lethal earthquake and its aftershocks inform their tales. 23-year-old Ibrahim Zakaria, a cellphone store employee, from the Syrian city of Jableh survived on soiled drips of water and ultimately misplaced hope that he’d be saved.

    “I said I am dead and it will be impossible for me to live again,” Zakaria, who was rescued Friday evening, advised The AP on Saturday.

    In Gaziantep province, which borders Syria, a household of 5 was rescued from a demolished constructing within the metropolis of Nurdagi, and a person and his 3-year-old daughter have been pulled from particles within the city of Islahiye, tv community HaberTurk reported. A 7-year-old woman was additionally rescued in Hatay province, reported The AP.

    In Elbistan, a district in Kahramanmaras province, 20-year-old Melisa Ulku and one other particular person have been saved from the rubble 132 hours after the quake struck.

    COUNTRIES RUSH MORE AID

    Several nations and worldwide organisations have rushed medical support and help to Turkey and Syria, India being one in all them. The Indian Army launched Operation Dost to increase help to Turkey in addition to Syria. India on Saturday despatched extra consignments of life-saving medicines and reduction supplies for earthquake victims of Turkey and Syria onboard a C-17 army transport plane.

    The seventh plane with humanitarian help that has landed in Turkey consists of ventilator machines, anesthesia machines, blankets, 13 tonnes of medical support. The help being despatched to Syria contains reduction supplies comparable to sleeping mats, gensets, photo voltaic lamps, tarpaulins, blankets, emergency and significant care medicines, and catastrophe reduction consumables.

    A border gate between long-feuding Turkey and Armenia has been opened for the primary time in 35 years to permit support for victims of the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey, state-owned Anadolu information company reported.

    Germany will grant three-month visas to Turkish and Syrian earthquake victims with household within the nation, the inside minister advised AFP on Saturday. “This is emergency aid,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser advised every day newspaper Bild.

    ALSO READ | Turkey-Syria quake: Hope fades for survivors as loss of life toll in ‘catastrophe of the century’ crosses 21,000 | Timeline of occasions

    BIG CHALLENGE FOR ERDOGAN

    The anger and frustration of individuals in Turkey towards Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who’s searching for one other election, is mounting daily. There is an enormous public outrage in direction of the federal government’s dealing with of a lethal earthquake.

    “It is going to be a big challenge for Erdogan,” Soner Cagaptay told AP, a Turkey expert at the Washington Institute and the author of several books on Erdogan.

    Turkey’s economy is being hammered by skyrocketing inflation, and Erdogan has faced widespread criticism for his handling of the problem, which has left millions of poor and middle class people struggling to make ends meet.

    DOUBLE WHAMMY FOR SYRIA

    The Turkey-Syria earthquake has worsened the existing humanitarian crisis in Syria caused by over a decade of civil war that had already wrecked houses and hospitals and displaced millions. For many, the earthquake is the second wave of displacement.

    “It took us two days to pull out their bodies and bury them in a mass grave,” Abu Yassin advised AP from the rebel-held province of Idlib.

    UNHCR mentioned in an announcement that it’s attempting to make sure that shelters housing displaced individuals have ample services, in addition to tents, plastic sheeting, thermal blankets, sleeping mats and winter clothes.

    (With inputs from AP, Reuters)

    ALSO READ | Turkey may have moved 5 meters after the violent earthquake

    Published On:

    Feb 12, 2023

  • Turkey earthquake: Teen trapped underneath rubble for 94 hours drank urine to outlive

    A 17-year-old teen, who obtained trapped underneath the rubble on Monday, was rescued within the Turkish metropolis of Gaziantep after nearly 4 days.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 11, 2023 09:16 IST

    After being trapped underneath the rubble for almost 4 days, Adnan Muhammet Korkut was lastly rescued. (Image: Twitter)

    By India Today Web Desk: In the wake of the devastating earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria, a 17-year-old boy, who obtained trapped underneath the rubble on Monday, was rescued after nearly 4 days.

    The teen mentioned that whereas he was trapped, he “drank his own urine and ate his family’s flowers to survive”, in line with a report in ABC News.

    Adnan Muhammet Korkut was caught underneath the particles for not less than 94 hours within the Turkish metropolis of Gaziantep. He was asleep in his household’s house when the quake hit, and he then “got into the foetal position”.

    ALSO READ | Turkey earthquake: Tragic photograph reveals father holding hand of useless daughter trapped in rubble

    As the seek for survivors carried on, Korkut mentioned he was “hearing voices, but I was worried they couldn’t hear me”, ABC information reported.

    But after 4 days, he was lastly freed.

    The 7.8 magnitude earthquake has claimed greater than 24,000 lives in Turkey and Syria. Victims, younger and previous, proceed to be rescued greater than 100 hours after the catastrophe struck, though hopes are ­fading for these nonetheless trapped underneath the rubble.

    ALSO READ | ‘Loss of a civilisation’: Ancient landmarks lowered to rubble in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

    ALSO READ | 134 aftershocks: The floor beneath Turkish ft continued shaking for 2 days

    Published On:

    Feb 11, 2023

  • Drone footage reveals big fissures brought on by large earthquake in Turkey

    One jagged scar of naked and cracked earth, opened up by Monday’s quake, minimize deep into embankments and ran alongside expanses of open land as much as the horizon close to the city of Tevekkeli, in Turkey’s southern province of Kahramanmaras.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 11, 2023 07:57 IST

    Aerial view reveals cracks within the floor within the aftermath of a lethal earthquake, close to the Tevekkeli village in Kahramanmaras. (Image: Reuters)

    By India Today Web Desk: With the window for rescue closing quickly after earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, greater than 24,000 persons are already confirmed lifeless and an unknown quantity nonetheless lie trapped.

    The large earthquake that struck the area, flattened buildings and destroyed lives, additionally prompted big and broad fissures to slice throughout fields, roads, streams and hillsides.

    Drone footage reveals one jagged scar of naked and cracked earth, opened up by Monday’s quake, minimize deep into embankments and ran alongside expanses of open land as much as the horizon close to the city of Tevekkeli, in Turkey’s southern province of Kahramanmaras, as reported by Reuters.

    ALSO READ | Turkey earthquake: Tragic picture reveals father holding hand of lifeless daughter trapped in rubble

    Near the village of Tepehan, big gorges minimize via groves near a home, leaving islands of grey-brown land and timber perched on the sting of recent precipices. Other timber lay uprooted on their sides.

    When the fissures fractured a freeway, it smashed the tarmac and metallic limitations. Huge boulders had tumbled down the hills on the aspect of the highway.

    The mixed loss of life toll from the deadliest quake within the area in twenty years that struck southern Turkey and Syria stood at greater than 24,000 on Friday.

    Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old child and his mom on Friday after they had been trapped within the ruins of a constructing in Turkey and dug a number of folks from different websites as President Tayyip Erdogan stated the authorities ought to have acted quicker.

    (With inputs from Reuters)

    ALSO READ | ‘Loss of a civilisation’: Ancient landmarks lowered to rubble in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

    ALSO READ | 134 aftershocks: The floor beneath Turkish toes continued shaking for 2 days

    Published On:

    Feb 11, 2023

  • Turkey-Syria Quake: Pictures inform the story of dying and destruction

    As the dying toll crosses over 16,000 after the deadliest quake that rocked Turkey, Syria on Monday morning, movies and footage doc the tragedy unfolding. 

    New Delhi ,UPDATED: Feb 9, 2023 21:39 IST

    A person carries the physique of a kid within the earthquake-affected Besnia village close to the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria. (File picture: AP)

    By Bidisha Saha:

    As the dying toll crosses over 16,000 after the deadliest quake that rocked Turkey, Syria on Monday morning, heart-wrenching photos captured by photojournalists on the bottom inform the story of the despair of survivors.

    In the aftermath of a calamity that has raised the spectre of a humanitarian catastrophe whereas rescuers relentlessly scour by way of piles of rubble and flattened buildings preventing freezing temperatures in a single day to drag out the survivors, movies and footage doc the tragedy unfolding.

    Read | Syria earthquake kills 25 of household, lone survivor says ‘had come to metropolis looking for shelter’

    India Today combs by way of the heart-wrenching photos to carry to gentle the story of human despair that has surfaced on-line, captured by photojournalists on the bottom. The gallery consists of graphic photos that narrate the account of the plight of the survivors, which incorporates little kids in addition to stray animals.

    Plenty of harrowing photos displaying hundreds of thousands of kids caught within the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria have emerged. At least 3,162 folks had been killed in Syria, based on figures from the Damascus authorities and rescue employees within the northwestern area managed by insurgents, and about 12,873 in Turkey.

    RESCUERS TURNED CAREGIVER
    Five-year-old lady Muhammet Ruzgar being carried by a rescuer from the location of a broken constructing in Hatay, Turkey. The image reveals him holding the kid near his coronary heart – a lucid try at offering consolation and heat. (Source: Umit Bektas / Turkey)EYES OF HOPE
    Mousa Zidane, a photographer who can also be working as a rescue employee with White Helmets in Syria, saved this small lady’s life after 50 hours of persistent digging. After noticing the rescue employees, the kid’s eyes sparkled with hope and eager for survival. (Source: Mousa Zidane / Syria)WRATH OF A TODDLER
    After being rescued, the small boy is frantically indignant on the rescue employees as they had been late in rescuing him. He expresses his anger by throwing his arms in a puerile method whereas the person who rescued him kisses his cheeks. (Source: Mousa Zidane / Syria) ENDURING PAIN IN ADVERSITY
    A little bit lady buried beneath the particles of her home was rescued by White Helmet volunteers on the brink of dying. While her mouth is clad with blood, her eyes communicate the story of endurance in adversity. (Source: Mousa Zidane / Syria)THIRST OF LIFE
    Rescuers reach saving the lifetime of a Syrian little one named Mohammed and a gripping video reveals them providing water to the kid, who continues to be trapped below a giant block of concrete. (Source: Afshin Ismaeli)THE LIFELESS
    A helpless father holding the physique of his daughter after being retrieved from a collapsed constructing in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. (Source: EPA-EFE/NECATI SAVAS)A GRIEVING FATHER
    The picture of Mesut Hancer holding the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died within the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, has taken the web by shock. He stares into oblivion sitting over the remnants of his decimated dwelling. (Adem Altan / AFP)FAITH IN TREPIDATION
    With his eyes gleaming with tears, a father prays for his son to be rescued and are available out alive. His 10-year-old was saved by the White Helmets employees at rescue operations in Syria. (Source: Mousa Zidane / Syria)A GRIM BEGINNING
    A 20-day-old survivor, Kerem Agirtas, was pulled from below the rubble and obtained assist from rescuers in Hatay, Turkey. The picture captured by Kemal Aslan reveals a new child going through a tough begin. (Source: Kemal Aslan | Reuters)SURVIVED TO LOSE IT ALL
    Peering out from below a big slab of concrete, Abdulalim Muaini lies below the rubble subsequent to the physique of his spouse Esra, who gave up on life by the point rescuers arrived. He weakly instructs the rescuers as his leg was caught. Later, the our bodies of his daughters, Mahsen and Besira, had been pulled out. (Umit Bektas | Reuters)LIFE AND DEATH IN THE RUBBLE
    Murad Muhiddin wraps the physique of his two-year-old son Vail, a sufferer of a collapsed constructing on February 8 in Hatay, Turkey. (Source: Umit Bektas, Reuters)A SAFE HAVEN INSIDE MOSQUE
    Survivors took refuge within the Grand Mosque within the southeastern Turkish metropolis of Diyarbakir within the aftermath of the earthquake that took away hundreds of thousands of properties. (Source: Ilyas Akengin, AFP)GONE TOO SOON
    The hand of a useless Syrian little one lies amid the particles of a tumbled constructing within the city of Jandaris. (Source: Mohammed Al-Rifai, AFP)TRAUMA OF A DAD
    An injured little one awaits therapy along with his panic-struck father on the emergency ward of the Bab al-Hawa hospital within the northern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province on the border with Turkey. (Source: Aaref Watad, AFP)HAND OF SHELTER
    In a picture broadly circulated on social media platforms, a 7-year-old Syrian lady locations her hand over her little brother’s head to guard him whereas they had been below the rubble for 17 hours. UN consultant Mohamad Safa first posted the image on Twitter. (Source: Mohamad Safa)BRIDE THAT WILL NEVER BE
    Yunus Emre Kaya sits subsequent to the physique of his fiancee Gulcin in a sports activities corridor the place kin are figuring out their family members within the aftermath of a lethal earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. They had been planning a life collectively earlier than Monday’s devastating earthquake shattered their goals. (Source: Reuters)FINAL GOODBYE
    In one more heart-breaking picture, the our bodies of a daughter and father have been photographed mendacity lifeless as they hug one another within the ultimate goodbye. (Source: Reddit)

    Edited By:

    Raajnandini Mukherjee

    Published On:

    Feb 9, 2023