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The confirmed death toll in Turkey was 53,537; estimates of the number of dead in Syria were between 5,951 and 8,476. It is the deadliest earthquake in what is now present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake [ 7 ] and the deadliest natural disaster in its modern history. [ 8 ]
The death toll in Turkey and Syria from the earthquake that struck five days ago has surpassed 25,000. Turkey’s president on Saturday raised the death toll in his country to 21,848, while in ...
A bus ferrying earthquake survivors from Hatay to Konya collided with a truck on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep Motorway on 23 February, killing two and injuring six. [76] On 20 April, an IF1 tornado struck a camp housing people affected by the earthquake in Pazarcık, Kahramanmaraş; three people died and 50 others were injured. [77] [78] [79] [80]
Turkey Earthquake April 29 1904 ... 2023 59,259–62,013 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes ... List of disasters in Romania by death toll; List of disasters in the ...
Over 100 miles to the northeast of Gaziantep, rescue and recovery efforts continued in Malatya where former journalist Ozel Pikal told The Associated Press he believed at least some of the victims ...
AFAD said the death toll in Turkey from the Feb. 6 disaster had reached 41,156 and was expected to climb, while 385,000 apartments were known to have been destroyed or damaged.
Up to 66,900 people died from earthquakes in 2023, the highest death toll for earthquakes since 2010. At least 59,488 people died in the Turkey–Syria doublets of February, which dominated world headlines because of its extensive devastation; the first mainshock was also the largest earthquake of the year at M w 7.8.
Second earthquake rocks Kahramanmaras region after country records highest magnitude earthquake since 1939, reducing buildings near Gaziantep to rubble – with families crushed in their sleep