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and i have to hold this weight because i'm responsible for the future fall country for the people behind the boss. gardens of truth starts february 18th on d, w. ah ah, this is detail. the news live from berlin. the frantic search for survivors in turkey and syria after the region is hit by the massive earthquakes, rescue crews managed to pull people alive from the ruins of their collapsed houses . for thousands are known to have died. in syria,
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the relief effort is complicated by the side effects of years of civil war. the country's economy and infrastructure are already in tatters. plus, international relief efforts get underway. countries from around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to the effected regions. ah, on pablo foliage, welcome to the program to powerful earthquakes on the turkish syrian border have killed more than 3400 people. rescue efforts are ongoing, but the death toll is expected to rise further. the initial 7.8 magnitude tremor was centered to north of the turkish city of garcia's tap. it caused destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards,
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also affecting parts of northern syria and international aid effort is underway with the united states, european union, nato, israel, and even ukraine having offered assistance if the georgia, if this is what they've been hoping for, for hours a rescuer carries little say now about the rubble of the collapse building and cut a man. brush bystanders keep shouting, the child is saved! the rescuer breaks down in tears. ah, in, hadn't i to the search for survivors went on all day. yet ever. if you can shout, make yourself heard the rescue as hang on every movement on every sound was. this letter was wrong. we keep hearing quiet voices. from under the rubble, we're finding lots of bodies, but also some survivors here in atlanta, hundreds of people fear for the lives of family members and friends. 6 and rescue
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as keep pulling bodies from the rubble. fear grows among those who are missing loved ones, guarded issue. my brother, his wife and my nephew, are still under the rubble. a cult. oh, what a terrible earthquake! allah surgery all i god help us! allah boshoway mason, but it's happened. bathrooms, are yelled alma. the earth shook in the early hours of monday morning in south eastern turkey. these images are from a security camera. the situation is especially bad in the cities of cameras. close to the epicenter of the quake, and hattie, near the syrian border, whole neighbourhood here had been flattened, low, and strong. aftershocks continued all day. those caused more buildings to collapse. president edwards spoke of a disaster of historic dimensions. today at 4 17
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am we were hit by the biggest catastrophe, quite since 1939 earthquakes of this other rooms. the government declared the highest state of alarm and called for international aid. in many cities like here in adena, the search continues in icy temperatures. in the hope of finding some one alive while the earthquakes also caused devastation in northern parts of syria near the turkish border news agency a f p is reporting that at least 1200 people in syria were killed in the quakes with more than $3000.00 injured, the tremors struck parts of the country that are already facing a crisis after years of civil war. in syria, as norse de devastation is evident. ah,
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the quaker levelled entire buildings killing sleeping residence in the early morning hours in rebel held it. let province residents describe it as the strongest earthquake they had experienced in their lifetimes above what does not by the love law, we went through horrifying moments in us building at 4 in the morning. isn't it? we've never witnessed an earthquake like this. thoughts of buildings of collapse, of my family and i survived and the neighbors did too, but 5 people died here we go. fia comes with us. hosanna and the situation was so intensely it felt like judgment a day. well, butler said the gun realty, only, they say the quick here went on for about a minute and a half. what followed was destruction on a scope that is proving difficult for volunteers from the syrian civil defense to manage on their own. they are still carrying out rescue operations,
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but supplies are running out fast. oh, about from of you yet about the all that say it gives you a situation is very lead. the people of northern syria witness to real catastrophe today. but most of the civil defense are still rescuing people, shall there still pulling out the corpses from under debris made out of this will take many hours and days will that get many hospitals can't take anymore patients much every mom and stuff, but well amadi and aleppo residents work alongside rescue workers clearing the rubble of damage buildings and trying to break shoes, cement, to rescue those still trapped underneath. many remain outside in the streets in the cold. fearing buildings could still collapse either from the damage already sustained or from after shocks expected to follow. we're scared for the children. we went back home and there was another creek. so we went back into the street.
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rescue workers have miraculously saved many from under the rubble, but as the body bag multiply, local communities are grappling with the loss that came. so drop lee in the middle the night. will austin elliott isn't earthquake geologist at the earthquake science center of the us geological survey? in california, and i asked him how prone the area is to quakes, what is it about these ones in turkey and syria that made them so daddy? turkey is one of the world's most earthquake brown countries. there are widely known and well understood seismic hazard zones that run along the north and the eastern edge of this country and the earthquake this morning happened along the eastern, a toy and fall recognizes one of the big major boundaries there in the region amended 7.8 was approaching the largest earthquakes we expect within the continents
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. and so this truly represents a significant event, scientifically. so often this is basically a massive earthquake in order. in other words, now there were also reports of for shock. so shocked before at the quakes actually hit. does that mean that there was actually a chance for people to have been saved if they'd actually reacted immediately after those shocks had been felt? well there was, as we understand, there was a magnitude 4.6 earthquake, 3 days ago happened february 3rd. that alone would definitely not have been enough of sort of warning to learn anyone that something more significant was on the way made measured for earthquakes happened all over this region and around the world all the time. and most of them are not followed by larger. so unfortunately, today we still don't have
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a way of predicting the timing of any subsequent earthquakes. what we do understand is how aftershock sequence. and as we see today, they can be quite vigorous. so we, we've already seen scores hundreds of after socks with strong shaking in the wake of this message. $7.00 as well as of course commanded them with 5, which with something of its own earthquake, intone right on a neighboring folk. so often, just so we're clear just if you can understand how things sort of function after a big event, like the ones that we've seen earlier. does that mean that the threat of more quakes is high at the moment? certainly so after a large earthquake, the rate of all other sizes of earthquakes increases, that's essentially what aftershocks are. and so for the most part,
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we're seeing those aftershocks occurring right in the immediate vicinity of the false that produced this magnitude 78. additionally, as i mentioned, the magnitude 7.5 ruptured neighboring adjacent. it's sort of having its own aftershock sequence over time after songs will become less frequent, but they don't necessarily get smaller. so the potential for large earthquakes will persist the likelihood of a nother large, really large earthquake like the to, we've seen is quite low, but can't be rolled out. and anyone who lives in earthquake pro, an area like this sort of has to reckon with the reality that large earthquakes are a possibility. i'll, since we've seen the images, we're seeing the images come in. we're seeing this death hall, which is absolutely awful. what can be done to better prepared these regions? like you say, they have to basically they're used to, you know,
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earthquake events or in areas where earthquakes happen. so what can they do to actually be better prepared? yeah, well fundamentally, there are a few different things at different levels that are required for earthquake preparedness and for writing through these safely or sort of well as a society. one of the really big important factors as we can see in the photos, is the construction of building how they're made. what goes into the design elements and that varies around the world. and there are a lot of different considerations that lead to different standards of design, different expectations about how things perform. so they're really big challenges around both changing building code, but also then changing the building stock service. but in response to those codes, the other factors are maybe a little bit more within people's control. and that's,
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you know, take the examples of what you're seeing on tv now. and although they are very hard to witness, and the harrowing to, to watch people in our pro, regions should consider to themselves if we know what sort of earthquake to anticipate like these ones. right, what would i want to be prepared with austin elliott, an earthquake geologist? joining us from california, thank you. let's take a look now at some other headlines related to the earthquake disaster. the united nations general assembly new york has observed a minute of silence for victims of the earthquakes. un secretary general, antonio katasha expressed his condolences and called on the international community to show solidarity. could tell her, said you and staff are already on the ground in turkey and syria, providing support. people in ukraine are showing solidarity by bringing flowers,
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candles, and toys to the turkish embers. embassy and keys, and cranium. president vladimir zalinski sent his condolences to turkey and syria, and offered to support the rescue operations there. german, rescuers and sniffer dogs have headed to turkey to help with the rescue operation. the team from germany's international search and rescue includes more than 40 specialists, supported by 7 dogs. the canines are specially trained to locate people trapped under rubble. while there are almost 3000000 people of turkish origin or descent living here in germany, turkish community has responded to the devastating earthquakes with donations for those left homeless. the response has been overwhelming. the task now is to sort through the donations and get the a to where it's needed. most children choose warm clothing and senator re products donations from the turkish community that these volunteers assaulting out in
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a school in berlin. as soon as they heard about the earthquakes, they wanted to help evolve to mourn for hall. i was at home this morning and heard about this tragic and turkey congress from social media on the news and chava mckee. i heard that there was a relief effort going on here. the. there's people that needed when to clothing and food effective. i took everything i could take from home and additionally, when shopping and then i brought it here. hey for that, i'm also helping to make sure it gets to where it is needed for your fall. the organize of the initiative knows 1st hand, how urgently help is needed. smoke the from my i'm doing this from my heart because they was once effected personally off night. i experienced the 1992 earthquake and i, i know how difficult the situation is. my son is. i was grateful for every little thing . that's what, as soon as i heard the,
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i got involved immediately. this thing as this, this, you ha ha, happened before you on dyes yet huh. the involvement of the target community and jeremy's, also visible in other cities. the owners of a local boxing club in munich were overwhelmed by the number of donations from people who want to help, despite being so far away from the disaster sown. you're watching dw news of next is a documentary looking at how russian oligarchy are hiding their super yachts. and don't forget the stereotypes or websites or in our youtube channel. take care. dear danesh, go muted. don't teach austin you month, right? you? the end of a superpower, the collapse of the soviet union rushes more in crane.
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