On 6 February 2023, a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The earthquake was the strongest in Turkey in more than 80 years. Approximately 9 h later, a Mw 7.6 earthquake occurred to the north-northeast from the first, in ...
- mostly in turkey but with thousands also perishing in northern syria. that earthquake caused widespread destruction in both countries. "it was the same sound, as if it was coming out of the earth," said umm hamzah, a resident of the syrian capital damascus. "i got dizzy just...
This study aimed to determine the surface deformation resulting from the earthquake on February 6, 2023, on the Turkish-Syrian border using Sentinel-1 SAR images and DInSAR techniques. The analysis was limited to pixels with a coherence value above 0.6 to reduce misinterpretations from phase ...
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Gaziantepis mentioned below. Here’s the map showing where that is. The affected region seems to be southern Turkey along most of the border with Syria, and into Syria itself. That’s Syria!!!#deprem#Turkey#TurkeyEarthquake#earthquake#DEPREMOLDU#Adana#Kahramanmaras#sanliurfa#ACİL#Osmaniye#Ha...
More powerful tremors have hit Turkey and are among 285 aftershocks recorded so far after thousands of people were killed and many more injured in a powerful earthquake. A 5.4 magnitude tremor struck the eastern side of the country at 7.10am (UK time) this morning, according to ...
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey/DAMASCUS - A huge earthquake killed more than 3,700 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors. ...
The earthquake's epicenter was in the town of Defne, in Turkey's Hatay province, which borders Syria. It was also felt in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and as far away as Egypt, and followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor, and dozens of aftershocks. ...
Turkey and Syria are reeling from the devastating earthquakes which have killed thousands of people. Humanitarian groups warn the earthquakes could worsen a crisis both countries were already facing prior to the earthquakes. Andrew Tabler, a Martin J. Gross senior fellow at the Washington Institute,...
Earthquake in Turkey, Syria: WHO commends Algerian Civil protection efforts in rescue operations ALGIERS- The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on...