Earthquake

What worries medical charities about trying to help Syria's earthquake survivors

5:34pm March 15, 2023

by Jason Beaubien

Camps in Syria have become overcrowded in the northwest of the country after the February 6 earthquake. NPR talks to Dr. Mego Terzian of Doctors without Borders about his assessment of the situation.

A woman tends to lentil soup at a municipal soup kitchen in Gaziantep, Turkey. On the first day after the quake, the kitchen's director says they distributed soup to more than 200,000 people.

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Lentil soup comes to the rescue in quake-ravaged Turkey

2:02pm February 21, 2023

by Jason Beaubien

It's a supersoup during this humanitarian crisis. Easy to make, it warms the displaced, fuels rescue crews and comforts residents traumatized by the disaster.

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People in Antakya, Turkey, react after a new earthquake struck on Monday.

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A new earthquake hits Turkey, as teams still respond to earlier catastrophic quake

5:03pm February 20, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

Turkish authorities say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 5.8 tremor, struck the Antakya region around 8 p.m. local time Monday. The quake was also felt in Syria.

As Turkey's leaders promise a swift start to reconstruction efforts in the earthquake zone, attention is also turning to Istanbul — and whether Turkey's largest city has done what it can to be ready for a major quake.

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Turkey and Syria quakes prompt fresh worries about Istanbul's building safety

5:02am February 20, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

As Turkey's leaders promise a swift start to reconstruction efforts in the earthquake zone, attention is also turning to Istanbul — and whether Turkey's largest city is ready for a major quake.

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Samaritan's Purse provides medical help to earthquake-ravaged Turkey

8:03pm February 15, 2023

by Paul Garber and Xander Friedel

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A wooden plank marks a grave in a cemetery in Pazarcik, Turkey.

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Turkey buries its earthquake dead in small cemeteries and mass graves

9:28am February 15, 2023

by Jason Beaubien

With so many killed suddenly in the quake, Turkey faces the challenge of burying tens of thousands of people. Multiple funerals are happening at once and the process of burying the dead is constant.

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Melike Bayar, 34, cries as she stands outside the building where her relatives died.

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After Turkey's quake, one family mourns its losses — and braces for more

5:03am February 14, 2023

As volunteers continue digging through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, the siblings of a woman found dead with her four children are now awaiting news of their mother and another sister.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits the city center destroyed by last the Feb. 6 earthquake in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, on Feb. 8.

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Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes

2:10pm February 13, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

Videos have surfaced in Turkish media of the president in 2019 praising a policy that let builders off the hook for skirting safety codes that could have made buildings more quake resistant.

Women sit in front of the rubble of an area destroyed during the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023.

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Rescuers keep digging for survivors a week after the Turkey-Syria earthquake

10:24am February 13, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

People buried under rubble in southern Turkey continue to defy the odds, surviving freezing weather and a week without water. A 40-year-old woman was pulled alive in Gaziantep province early Monday.

People search through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Jinderis, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday.

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Videos show extraordinary rescues in Syria in the earthquake's dire aftermath

3:59pm February 09, 2023

by Aya Batrawy

Hope is fading for finding survivors after Monday's devastating earthquake. But widely shared footage of volunteers pulling people alive from rubble in northwest Syria has lifted spirits.