Analysis: Why can’t rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria go faster? It certainly isn’t the fault of the rescuers, who have been working through the night in shocking conditions. Instead, there are four major reasons.
And despite significant pledges of international aid, these efforts have been painfully difficult.
The earthquake, believed to have happened due to events in the East Anatolian fault system, had an epicenter near the town of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. It was measured as aearthquake and then there were a series of large aftershocks — the largest, a 7.5 magnitude temblor around 60 miles away from of the original epicenter, was so big that some seismologists consider it a separate earthquake.
“It’s difficult to watch this tragedy unfold, especially since we’ve known for a long time that the buildings in the region were not designed to withstand earthquakes,” USGS scientist David Wald said in a statement.The first earthquake hit at around 4:15 a.m. local time. This meant that people were not congregated in schools, offices or markets, but spread out in apartments or houses.
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