BREAKING: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will send $10 million in humanitarian aid to Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck both nations. 9News READ MORE:
At least 2379 people were killed in 10 Turkish provinces, with nearly 15,000 injured, according to Turkish authorities.
A second shock hit central Turkey on Monday afternoon at magnitude 7.5 and a depth of 10km, according to the USGS. Orhan Tatar, an official from Turkey's disaster management agency, said it was a new earthquake, but Yaareb Altaweel, a seismologist with the USGS, said it was considered an aftershock because it took place on the same fault line as the first.A baby is rescued from a destroyed building in Malatya, Turkey.
Turkey sits on top of major fault lines and is frequently shaken by earthquakes. Some 18,000 were killed in powerful earthquakes that hit northwest Turkey in 1999.Hundreds are still believed to be trapped under rubble, and the death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area.
A hospital came down in the Mediterranean coastal city of Iskenderun, but casualties were not immediately known, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said. In the city of Kahramanmaras, rescuers pulled two children alive from the rubble, and one could be seen lying on a stretcher on the snowy ground. In Turkey, people trying to leave the quake-stricken regions caused traffic jams, hampering efforts of emergency teams.
Schools were closed for a two-week holiday and were set to open Monday but had remained shut in some cities because of snowstorms. In the small Syrian rebel-held town of Azmarin in the mountains by the Turkish border, the bodies of several dead children, wrapped in blankets, were brought to a hospital.
In the Turkish city of Adana, one resident said three buildings near his home collapsed. "I don't have the strength anymore," one survivor could be heard calling out from beneath the rubble as rescue workers tried to reach him, said the resident, journalism student Muhammet Fatih Yavus.
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