A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 3,400 people.
from within mountains of debris as first responders contended with rain and snow. Seismic activity continued to rattle the region, including another jolt nearly as powerful as the initial quake. Workers carefully pulled away slabs of concrete and reached for bodies as desperate families waited for news of loved ones.
It piled more misery on a region that has seen tremendous suffering over the past decade. On the Syrian side, the area is divided between government-held territory and the country’s last opposition-held enclave, which is surrounded by Russian-backed government forces. Turkey, meanwhile, is home to millions of refugees from the civil war.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured Monday’s quake at 7.8, with a depth of 18 kilometers . Hours later, a 7.5 magnitude temblor, likely triggered by the first, struck more than 100 kilometers away. Bitterly cold temperatures could reduce the time frame that rescuers have to save trapped survivors, said Dr. Steven Godby, an expert in natural hazards at Nottingham Trent University. The difficulty of working in areas beset by civil war would further complicate rescue efforts, he said.poured in from dozens of countries
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