The consequences of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria in photos

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed a few hours later by a very strong aftershock, killed more than 2,300 people in southeastern Turkey and neighboring Syria on Monday, February 6, according to still provisional reports. The latter are still at risk of evolving in the cities of Adana, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa and Diyarbakir, in particular, where more than 3,000 buildings have collapsed.

A very large number of victims remain trapped under the rubble of these buildings. The rain and snow, which fell in some places in abundance, and the expected drop in temperatures will make the situation for homeless people even more difficult, as will the work of the rescuers.

Turkey had not experienced an earthquake of such violence since August 17, 1999, which caused the death of 17,000 people, including a thousand in Istanbul. According to the Danish Geological Institute, the tremors were felt as far away as Greenland.

Shortly after the earthquake, Syrian relief workers (White Helmets) and civilians search for victims and survivors among the rubble of a building in the countryside of northern Syria's Idlib province, bordering Turkey , held by the rebels, early on February 6, 2023. The earthquake occurred in the middle of the night (at 4:17 a.m. or 2:17 a.m. Paris time).
A member of the White Helmets carries a child rescued from the rubble in the town of Zardana in the countryside of Syria's northwest Idlib province early on February 6, 2023.
Rescue workers carry a boy out of the rubble in Al-Dana, in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region, early on February 6, 2023.
Searching for victims by civil protection, in the town of Zardana, in the countryside of Idlib province, northwestern Syria, on February 6, 2023.
At a hospital near the Syrian rebel-held Bab Al-Hawa crossing to Turkey on February 6, 2023.
At al-Rahma hospital in the Syrian town of Darkoch, on the outskirts of the rebel-held province of Idlib (northwestern Syria), on February 6, 2023.
Residents pick up an injured girl from the rubble of a collapsed building following an earthquake in the town of Jandairis in the countryside of Afrin city in northwestern Syria, part from the rebel-held Aleppo province on February 6, 2023.
Aerial view of residents searching for victims and survivors amid rubble in the village of Besnia, in Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib (northwestern Syria) on the border with Turkey, on February 6, 2023.
Men attempt to identify the bodies of earthquake victims outside a hospital, in Aleppo, Syria, Monday, February 6, 2023.
In Diyarbakir (Turkey), February 6, 2023.
Rescuers pull a young girl from the rubble of a building in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 6, 2023.
In Turkey, rescuers search for survivors in the rubble in Sanliurfa on February 6, 2023.
View of a collapsed building in Diyarbakir (Turkey), February 6, 2023.
Civilians search for people among the debris of a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Monday, February 6, 2023.
Greek firefighters accompanied by dogs wait to board a military plane at Elefsina airbase in western Athens, Greece, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Greece said it was sending a team of twenty and one lifeguard, two rescue dogs and a special rescue vehicle, as well as a structural engineer, five doctors and seismic planning experts, all traveling in a military transport plane.

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