Search results for ‘Quake’
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Rescue efforts defy odds in quake-hit areas of Turkey and Syria
In the wake of every natural disaster comes a horrible turning point at which rescue missions become recovery operations.
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Turkey Syria earthquake: Children still being pulled out alive as death toll hits 23,000
It’s now 108 hours since the first quake struck here at just after 4am on Monday when so many people were buried in over six thousand buildings that collapsed.
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Turkey’s earthquake tax “didn’t go to the right places”, says former diplomat
We were joined from Ankara by Sinan Ulgen, the former Turkish diplomat currently chairing the Istanbul-based Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy.
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‘Bad buildings killed people not the earthquake’, Turkish construction boss says
Among the many questions about the scale of deaths in this disaster is why some buildings collapsed when they were surrounded by others that didn’t?
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‘Please help us’ – Turks call on world for help after earthquake
Travelling around this region reveals the unimaginable scale of the tragedy.
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Turkey Syria earthquake: death toll rising as ‘window of rescue’ closing
People are still being pulled alive from collapsed buildings, following the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria. But they are now outnumbered by the dead.
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Engineer explains why Turkey earthquake was so destructive
In 1999 a quake in the north-west, around the city of Izmit, left some 17 thousand people dead. Stricter building safety standards were brought in, but experts say they have been poorly enforced.
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Turkey’s Erdogan admits problems with earthquake emergency response
President Erdogan has acknowledged that initially there were problems with Turkey’s emergency response and has promised to rehouse people left without homes within a year.
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‘No one has arrived’ to help after earthquake says doctor in north west Syria
Dr Mahmoud Kaddah is a paediatric surgeon at Bab al-Hawa Hospital near the Turkish-Syrian border.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: not enough aid getting to those desperate for help
Our chief correspondent Alex Thomson has been to the small town of Nurdagi which is close to the epicentre of Monday’s strongest quake.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: tens of thousands still missing under rubble
The death toll from Monday’s earthquakes raced past 11,000 today. It’s possible that tens of thousands more lie dead in the rubble of thousands of collapsed buildings in Turkey and Syria.
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Earthquake response: Turkish and Syrian communities in the UK organise relief efforts
People from Britain’s Turkish and Syrian communities have responded quickly to the earthquake crisis.
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UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo explains the situation in Syria after deadly earthquakes
We were joined by Angela Kearney, UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo.
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Turkey quake: Voices call from under rubble as rescuers race to help
Right across the regions affected by the quake, there has been growing anger with the lack of aid as rescue teams struggle to cope with the sheer scale of the destruction.
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Earthquake: Emergency upon emergency as crisis hits war-torn Syria
In Syria, as in Turkey, they are desperately going through rubble, trying to pull survivors out. With the official number killed heading towards 2000.
