Tag: Earthquake

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said the overall death toll currently stood at 20,318, with 80,052 reported injuries, Anadolu News Agency reported.

Now, the picture of the Turkish woman kissing the woman soldier has been going viral online.

Aya is one of the several children who have been orphaned due to the earthquake. Meanwhile, the death toll in the devastating quake has crossed 21,000 on Friday.

The death toll from the earthquakes climbed to 17,674 in Turkey, with 72,879 injuries, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Thursday.

The devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have made residents of Talcher in Odisha lose their sleep. Relentless and rampant coal mining along with faulty sand filling has created increasing possibility of major land subsidence scenario.

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) said the country's overall death toll currently stood at 12,391 people, with 62,914 others injured, reports Anadolu News Agency.

With rampant mining of coal by the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) from underneath the Talcher town and alleged faulty sand-filling, the residents are staring at a grim future.

Turkish goalkeeper Ahmet Eyup Turkaslan has died following the devastating earthquake in his country, the Yeni Malatyaspor has announced.

Indian Army mobilizes special field hospital to quake-hit Turkey.Agra-based Army Field Hospital dispatches 89-member medical team.The medics comprise critical care specialists, ortho surgical team.

Seven quakes with magnitude 7.0 or greater have struck Turkey in the past 25 years.

The second quake struck at 1.24 p.m. local time (3.45 p.m. IST).

The death toll in Turkey has risen again to 1,498, according to the country's disaster management agency, and 810 in Syria.

The earthquake was recorded at 6.38 am with its epicentre 11 km north-north east of Dudhai village in the district, the Gandhinagar-based ISR said in an update on its website.

The quake hit the region at 21.44 p.m. local time on Saturday and its depth was 7 km, the state media reported.

The earthquake did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami, it added.