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Map shows earthquakes and aftershocks felt across Turkey and Syria

Fun VLOG February 07, 2023
Turkey Earthquake updated map feb 2023 credit metro.co.uk
Turkey and Syria were hit by several major earthquakes in the last 24 hours (Picture: Metro.co.uk)

A map shows the epicentres of all earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria, killing more than 5,100 people.

President Tayyip Erdoğan stressed it is the strongest to hit the country since 1939, when an earthquake of the same magnitude killed more than 33,000 people.

Registered at 4.17am local time, the first was 7.8 magnitude and struck southern Turkey, near the Syrian border.

Thousands of buildings were toppled, hospitals and schools wrecked and tens of thousands of people were injured or left homeless on both sides of the border.

This was then followed by a series of aftershocks and a 7.5-magnitude earthquake nine hours later. 

Tremors were also recorded across the region, including in Greece, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel and Jordan.

In Syria, the seismic event shook a region that houses millions of people already displaced by the country’s nearly 12-year-old civil war.

Alex Hatem, a USGS research geologist, confirmed the region had felt at least 13 significant aftershocks with a magnitude of more than 5.

IDLIB, SYRIA - FEBRUARY 07: Personnel and civilians conduct search and rescue operations in Idlib, Syria after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hits Turkiye's Kahramanmaras, on February 07, 2023. As a result of the earthquake, at least 1602 people lost their lives in different parts of Syria, more than 3,649 people were injured. Search and rescue efforts continue in Atarib, Dana and Haram towns of Idlib province, which were affected by earthquakes. Early Monday morning, a strong 7.7 earthquake, centered in the Pazarcik district, jolted Kahramanmaras and strongly shook several provinces, including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis. Later, at 13.24 p.m. (1024GMT), a 7.6 magnitude quake centered in Kahramanmaras' Elbistan district struck the region. Turkiye declared 7 days of national mourning after deadly earthquakes in southern provinces. (Photo by Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Search and rescue operations in Idlib, Syria (Picture: Anadolu)
TOPSHOT - An aerial picture shows rescuers searching the rubble of buildings for casualties and survivors in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province at the border with Turkey following an earthquake, on February 7, 2023. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP) (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
An aerial picture shows rescuers searching the rubble of buildings for casualties and survivors in the village of Besnaya in Syria’s rebel-held northwestern Idlib province (Picture: AFP)
IDLIB, SYRIA - FEBRUARY 07: Personnel and civilians conduct search and rescue operations in Idlib, Syria after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hits Turkiye's Kahramanmaras, on February 07, 2023. As a result of the earthquake, at least 1602 people lost their lives in different parts of Syria, more than 3,649 people were injured. Search and rescue efforts continue in Atarib, Dana and Haram towns of Idlib province, which were affected by earthquakes. Early Monday morning, a strong 7.7 earthquake, centered in the Pazarcik district, jolted Kahramanmaras and strongly shook several provinces, including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis. Later, at 13.24 p.m. (1024GMT), a 7.6 magnitude quake centered in Kahramanmaras' Elbistan district struck the region. Turkiye declared 7 days of national mourning after deadly earthquakes in southern provinces. (Photo by Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
At least 1,602 people lost their lives in different parts of Syria (Picture: Anadolu)

He said: ‘More aftershocks are certainly expected, given the size of the main one. We expect aftershocks to continue in the coming days, weeks and months.’

Search teams and emergency aid from around the world poured into Turkey and Syria overnight.

Rescuers have been working in freezing temperatures, digging through the piles of concrete from flattened buildings.

More than 8,000 people have been pulled from the debris in Turkey alone, and some 380,000 have taken refuge in government shelters or hotels, said Turkish vice president Fuat Oktay.

MARAS, TURKIYE- FEBRUARY 7: General view inside a hospital after the earthquake on February 7, 2023 in Maras (Kahramanmaras), T??rkiye. After an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in the Pazarc??k district of Kahramanmara?? ruins on February 6. (Photo by Nam??k Durukaya/ dia images)
Hospitals in Turkey are running out of space for the injured (Picture: Getty)
TOPSHOT - Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, on February 7, 2023. - Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved frigid weather, aftershocks and collapsing buildings, as they dug for survivors buried by an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people. Some of the heaviest devastation occurred near the quake's epicentre between Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, a city of two million where entire blocks now lie in ruins under gathering snow. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP) (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
A man holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras (Picture: AFP)

They huddled in shopping malls, stadiums, and mosques, while others spent the night outside in blankets gathering around fires.

President Erdogan said 13 million people of the country’s 85 million were affected in some way.

He declared a state of emergency in some 10 provinces in order to manage the response.

For the entire quake-hit area, that number could be as high as 23 million people, according to Adelheid Marschang, a senior emergencies officer with the World Health Organization.

‘This is a crisis on top of multiple crises in the affected region,’ Marschang said in Geneva.

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