Three powerful earthquakes in last 24 hours in Turkey, more than 1900 people died, 10 things

The intensity of the night’s arrival was 7.8 magnitude. Two more earthquakes struck just hours later, ravaging major cities in Turkey, the Arab regions of the emirate and millions of people from the civil war in Syria and other conflicts.

Raed Ahmed, head of Syria’s National Earthquake Center, called it “the biggest earthquake in the center’s history”. State media and medical sources said at least 783 people were reported killed in rebel and government-held areas of Syria.

The trauma killed 1,121 people in Turkey, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is wresting the biggest blow of his two decades in power.

The initial earthquake was followed by more than 50 aftershocks, including 7.5 and 6-magnitude signals. It rocked the area on Monday afternoon amid search operations.

The second quake was felt as far away as the Turkish capital Ankara and the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Erbil, AFP reports and witnesses.

Shocked Turkish people were seen running in their pajamas through the snow-covered streets. During this, he saw the villagers breaking the debris of their houses with their own hands.

“Seven members of my family are immersed in membership,” Muhittin Oraksi, a survivor in the Turkish Kurdish city of Diyarbakir (exposed), told AFP. “My sister, her three children, her husband and in-laws are buried there,” he said.

Let us tell you that only once the snow storm was hampering the rescue work. By swimming in the water, the chiefs got engrossed in the ice.

Officials said the quake disabled three major airports in the region, making access to vital aid more difficult.

Erdogan expressed his sympathies and urged national unity, saying, “We hope that together we will recover from this disaster as soon as possible and with the least damage.”