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As the death toll climbs, search teams try to find survivors
World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday said that the recent earthquake in northern Syria has been termed as “the disaster of the century”. Ghebreyesus said, “This is the first earthquake of the century in the world and it is a major problem for us.” The death toll in the earthquake rose…
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The scientists know about the Turkey–Syria earthquake
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yldrm has said that search and rescue teams have pulled more than 8,000 people from underneath rubble of thousands of toppled buildings in the past two days. “People in Turkey are aware of their susceptibility to earthquakes,” a seismologist based in Istanbul said. The death toll in Turkey’s earthquake has exceeded…
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Hopes fade as rescuers search for survivors of the earthquake
The death toll from the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday has risen to over 10,000, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said on Wednesday. At least 400 people have died in Turkey, with over 2,000 injured, the authority added. The death toll from the earthquake in northern Syria has risen to over…
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More than 20,000 people have been killed in a major earthquake in Turkey and Syria
The death toll from the earthquake in Syria and Turkey has risen to over 21,000, Turkish Health Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan said. At least 1,200 people have died in Syria’s Hama and Idlib province, the Syrian Health Ministry said on Thursday. The US Geological Survey said that the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Damascus on…
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Why size and ground are important for earthquakes
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California on Tuesday, injuring at least 14 people and knocking out power to thousands. It was the biggest earthquake to hit the US state in nearly 50 years, according to the US Geological Survey. The last time an earthquake of similar magnitude hit the state was on December 5, 1952,…
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So does criticism of Turkey’s government response to the earthquake
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the death toll due to the earthquake has risen to over 40, adding that around 5,000 others were injured. Yildirim added that more than 380,000 people have been displaced after the earthquake in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaras. Earlier, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoan said the death toll could…
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Syrians are happy to see rescues in the aftermath of the earthquake
The death toll from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on Monday is expected to rise to over 5,000, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The total number of people left homeless after the earthquake is expected to be around 2.5 crore, SOHR further said. At least seven people have…
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A convoy of UN aid crosses the border after hundreds of bodies are delivered
As many as 3,460 people have been killed after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Syria on Saturday, the Syrian government said. The death toll in the city of Hama, which was struck by the earthquake, has risen to 1,058, it added. The United Nations has said that more than 1.5 lakh people are in need…
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Rescuers are looking for survivors in the Turkish city
Turkey’s government said search and rescue teams have pulled more than 8,000 people from under the rubble of thousands of toppled buildings in the past two days. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria on February 6. At least 50 people have died and over 10,000 have been injured in the earthquake.
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Scientists know about Turkey–Syria earthquake
The quake in northern Syria on Monday was a strikeslip earthquake, which means the stress built up between two Masses of rock moving horizontally in opposite directions until the fault ruptured, Reuters reported. “Eventually, the stress and strain…is going to overcome the friction that is holding the rocks together, and those rocks are going to…
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2 were hurt by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Northern California.
A magnitude-4.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California on Tuesday morning, the US Geological Survey said. It was followed by over two dozen smaller aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 4.7, the USGS added. Two people were injured in the earthquake and were being treated for injuries, the Humboldt County sheriff’s office…