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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 totters. plus, international relief efforts get underway. countries from around the world are sending rescue teams and supplies to be effective regions. ah, i'm pablo foley. yes, welcome to the program. to powerful earthquakes on the turkish syrian border have killed more than 4000 people. rescue efforts are ongoing, but the death toll is expected to rise further. the initial $7.00 magnitude tremor was centered north of the turkish city of gassy and tap it caused destruction stretching along turkeys, southern border from the mediterranean eastwards, also affecting parts of northern syria and her national aid effort is underway with

the united states. european union, nato, israel, and even ukraine having offered assistance the if the georgia this is what they've been hoping for. for hours. a rescuer carries little say now about of the rubble of the collapse building and cut a man, brush bystanders keep shouting. the child is saved, the rescuer breaks down in tears. oh, dear ever. if you can shout, make yourself heard. the rescue is hang on every movement on every sound. what's this that was wrong? we keep hearing quiet voices from under the rubble. we're finding lots of bodies, but also some survivors here in other hundreds of people fear for the lives of family members and friends. and rescue is keep putting bodies from the rubble. fear grows among those who are missing loved ones. go to the issue. my

brother, his wife and my nephew, are still under the rubble because ultima, what? a terrible earthquake! allah surgery, roller. god, help us! allah brush over at amazon, but it's happened marshall's i yelled omar. 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. more and strong. aftershocks continued all day. those caused more buildings to collapse. president edwards spoke of a disaster of historic dimensions. today at $417.00 a. m. we were hit by the biggest catastrophe since 1939 earthquakes are. those are those. the government declared the higher 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 someone alive, the earthquakes also caused a devastation in northern parts of syria near the turkish border. the tremors struck parts of the country that are already facing a crisis. after years of brutal civil war, in serious norse de devastation is evident. ah, the quaker levelled entire buildings killing sleeping residence into early morning hours in rebel held it, let province residence, describe it as the strongest earthquake they had experienced in their lifetimes above. what are those now by the 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 with sophia, comes with us household in this situation so intensely, it felt like judgment a day. well that was said because normally 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 steering civil defense to manage on their own they are still carrying out rescue operations, but supplies are running out fast. oh about from of you? yes. about the all that so you give shamaya situation is very bad. the people in northern syria witness to real catastrophe to day if i live in the civil defense are still rescuing people. so they're still pulling out the corpses from under

debris dw. so this will take many hours and days will that get many hospitals can't take anymore patients id really much, everyone on the some stuff, but well emory of and aleppo residence work alongside rescue workers clearing the rubble of damage buildings and trying to break through cement, to rescue those still trapped underneath many remain outside in the streets in the cold. fearing buildings could collapse either from the damage already sustained or from after shops expected to follow. were scared for the children. we went back home and there was another creek. so we went back into the street rescue workers have miraculously saved many from under the rubble, but as the body bags multiply, local communities are grappling with the loss that came so roughly in the middle the night. so what caused ear it's quake? turkey lies on several tectonic plates, which makes it

a hot spot for seismic activity. the country sits on the anatoly and plate between 3 other major tectonic plates. the african arabian, and duration, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake. that struck turkey and syria on monday cause to a more than 100 kilometer rupture along the anatolia and a radiant plates. will austin elliott is an earthquake geologist at the earthquake sign center of the us geological survey in california? and i asked him how prone the area is to quakes, and what is it about these ones in syria and turkey that made them so dead? turkey is one of the world's most earthquake brown countries, and there are widely known and well understood seismic hazards zones that run along the north and the eastern edge of this country. and the earthquakes this morning happened along the eastern natoya and 4 eyes recognised as one of the big major lea

boundaries there in the region amended 7.8 was approaching the largest earthquakes we expect within the continents. and so this truly represents a significant event, scientifically. so us, and this is basically a massive earthquake in other, in other words, now there were also reports of 4 shops. so shocked before 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 manager 4.6 earthquake, 3 days ago happened and 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. maybe maybe 34 weeks 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 a way of predicting the timing of any subsequent earthquakes. what we do understand is how aftershock sequence day they can be quite figure. so we, we've already seen scores, hundreds of after stocks were strong shaking in the wake of this message, 7.8 as well as, of course demanded them point 5, which with something of its own earthquake in its own right on a neighboring thought. so often, just so we're clear to, 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, we're seeing those after sauce occurring right in the immediate vicinity of the false that produce this magnitude $78.00. additionally, as i mentioned, the magnitude 7.5 ruptured neighboring. jason, it's sort of having its own after shock sequence over time after shops will become less frequent, but they don't necessarily get smaller. so the potential for large earthquakes will persist. the likelihood of another large, really large earthquake like the to, we've seen is quite low, 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. austin elliott and earthquake geologists joining us from california

. thank you. thank you. let's take a look now at some other headlines related to the earthquake disaster. turkish authorities are using a ship to transport. the injured to hospital ambulance is carried doesn't to a military vessel which then took them to hospitals in the port safety of medicine for treatment. the turkish ministry of defense as 3 and a half 1000 military personnel are assisting the search and rescue efforts. united nations general assembly in new york has observed a minute of silence for victims of the earthquakes. un secretary general, antonio quoterush expressed his condolences and cold on the international community to show solidarity. quoterush said un staff are already on the ground and turkey and syria providing support. the people in ukraine are showing solidarity by bringing flowers candles and toys to the turkish embassy in keith and cranium,

president followed ramirez lansky sent his condolences to turkey and syria and offered to support the rescue operations there. while the international response to the earthquake is gathering pace, humanitarian aid is on its way and rescue. teams are heading to the region from around the world. germany is part of the effort packing as fast as they can. there's no time to waste as the german team from aid agency, international search and rescue prepares their equipment for their mission in earthquake hit tacky. hearing the rescue operations, they'll have to be totally self sufficient. because in some areas, the earthquake destroyed everything. you're missing. what we need to be able to provide for ourselves and others for 10 days or was organ couldn't. this includes not only the material we need to rescue and treat others, but also the material we need to stay there and the 1st place. and so con, thus tanks, that's a whole kitchen. oh, that's food that's caught eaters,

blanket items. so cronum are on the tarmac in the spanish capital, madrid, soldiers, and 40 fire fighters board, a military plane bound for turkey. it will be bringing a cargo of aid and a team of rescue dogs to the search and rescue teams from greece, the netherlands, and poland, flying out to the quake in south eastern taki. ah, and mol, health is coming overland. the 1st comb voigt from the kurdistan region of iraq, 25 ambulances trucks, a medical teams. q at the border with turkey. baghdad is dispatching civil defense tends to, and sending to planes of humanitarian aid to its war torn neva,

syria. it's the relief that coordinated by the red crescent and the iraqi government that up man, men, 3 tons of medical relief and emergency 8 doors. this will be delivered to the syrian people after the earthquake that hit turkey and syria authorities, a marvin. we also sent 150 pounds of medics with their ambulances and mobile emergency equipment to turkey with him to help our brothers in turkey to face these problems. okay. i one more jadelyn much we can handle is of help have been flooding in from israel, russia, and the us. it's a race against time to get the international teams here into turkey and set up before they can even start to locate and rescue survivors. with her as a reminder of the top story, we're following for you. rescue crews are searching for survivors in turkey and

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