Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly visited the region earlier Monday. Erdogan said around 1.6 million people are currently being housed in temporary shelters. "We’re hearing reports of damage and loved ones separated and so the nightmare of the past few weeks is starting over again for some residents," Eli told USA TODAY.
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Turkey’s disaster management agency, AFAD, said the quake was centered around the town of Defne in Hatay province. The Full Quake II in SIRDS You finally saw the yacht in the seemingly random bunch of dots You can see the dinosaurs and dolphins in the Magic-Eye books Now. It was followed by a second tremor of magnitude 5.8. Reuters reported that Monday's temblor set off panic and damaged buildings in the city of Antakya. Hatay province is on the Mediterranean coast, bordered by Syria to the south and east. 6 quakes that Turkish officials say killed more than 41,000 people in their country alone. US PROVIDES AID: Secretary of State Blinken toured Turkey’s earthquake zone, pledged $100M in aid Several thousand people also died in Syria as a result of the quakes, which injured tens of thousands of people across the two nations and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Thompson, the CEO of quake-assessment company SafeHub, said quickly assessing the damage levels of buildings is a tough task, complicated by ongoing rescues, shortages of heavy equipment and safety concerns from aftershocks. "In these situations, we would never say that a building is safe. The thing that structural engineers would be saying, what we're looking at, is the question: 'Is it less safe than it was before the primary event?'" he said. "The challenge is that you need to make thousands of evaluations very quickly with a limited number of experts." Desperate survivors taking risksįormer U.S. Marine Andrew Cote, who recently returned from the Hatay area following a four-day search-and-rescue trip, said many buildings still standing were nevertheless teetering on the edge. In one case, he said, two approximately six-story apartment buildings had teetered sideways into each other, posing significant risk of further collapse.
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