Earthquake
On February 6th, 2023, on Monday morning, around 4:15AM (GMT +3), an earthquake happened in Turkiye, and a lot of people were caught off guard since they were asleep.
The magnitude of the earthquake has been announced as 7.5, but later in the day, around 14:15PM, another earthquake has happened and this time it was 7.7. These earthquakes were the strongest that has ever happened in the southeast of Turkiye since 1939, and as I said above, many people were caught off guard.
There had been many search and rescue operations, and still happening, but there isn’t enough people to help everyone who had been injured and trapped under the destroyed buildings. After these two (2) big earthquakes, there had been a lot of aftershocks, at least M4.4 and highest M6.0. These aftershocks had demolished whatever left from the damaged buildings and made the search and rescue operations even harder to proceed.
The weather isn’t helping, either, because since the 1st of February, the snow has taken over the country and is more effective on the region where the earthquake happened. There are many, many cities where the search parties still could not reach and God knows how many dead.
The current toll is: 1.541 dead, more than 10K wounded and more than 5K bulding are destroyed.
People are in need of blankets, food, tent to stay in through the night as the buildings are very dangerous and there are still aftershocks happening, and diapers, water and hygenic peds.
Please, if you are able to, consider helping my people by donating. You can donate money through the photos I will add below. Please reblog, so that this post can reach many many people. Thank you.
It has been announced that 3549 people have died and 21,103 people have been injured so far. The weather is very cold, rainy and snowy. Please help our people if you can. If you want to help, you can donate to AHBAP. Even the $5 you send means a lot.
Dead count currently 4544 and quickly rising. It’s very cold outside and if they’re not out by tonight I’m afraid they could die from the cold.
update: dead count is now 5.434 and wounded count is 31.777. please consider donating and if you can’t, please spread the word by reblogging.
only in one (1) city there are more than 2.7K buildings that have collapsed and more is expected to collapse soon. and that is just one (1) city.
this earthquake has hit ten (10) cities.
