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2023-02-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Nearly 3,000 5,000 dead, over 13,500 injured in Turkiye-syria earthquake
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[The Nation (Pak)] A second earthquake of at least 7.5 magnitude rocked Turkiye and neighboring Syria less than 12 hours after the border areas were hit by a quake measuring 7.8, killing more than 2,700 people, with many others missing or injured on Monday morning. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck just after 4 a.m. local time on Monday, 23 kilometerseast of Nurdagi, Gaziantep province, at a depth of 24.1 kilometers, according to data from the United States Geological Survey. Churches, hospitals and residential tower blocks are among the hundreds of buildings razed to the ground - their occupants trapped under the rubble, caught unaware by the massive quake. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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declared seven days of national mourning following the deadly quakes that hit the country Monday.
Ottoman Turkish flags will fly at half-staff across the nation and at its diplomatic missions overseas. The Ottoman Turkish Vice President, Fuat Oktay, said such a disaster could hit "once in a hundred years," and that his country should be prepared for the corpse count — already over 1,600 in Turkey alone — to rise. Oktay also said some 145 aftershocks were registered following the deadly quake overnight, with three that were larger than 6.0 magnitude. The corpse count across Turkey and Syria rose to at least 2,724 after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The total number of injured climbed to 13,580, based on information provided by various agencies.
Turkey has at least 11,119 injured people and Syria has 2,461 injured people following the quake. The total corpse count in Syria rose to 1,073. News agency SANA reports 593 across government-controlled areas and the "White Helmets" group, officially known as the Syria Civil Defense, reported 480 deaths in opposition-controlled areas. The total corpse count in Turkey has climbed to 1,651, according to Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay.
The corpse count from a strong earthquake in south-eastern Turkey, near Syria’s border, could rise eight-fold, the World Health Organisation
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has warned. Countries around the world are sending support to help the rescue efforts, including specialist teams, sniffer dogs and equipment. The US Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude tremor struck at 04:17 local time (01:17 GMT) at a depth of 17.9km (11 miles) near the city of Gaziantep. Seismologists said the first quake was one of the largest ever recorded in Turkey. Survivors said it took two minutes for the shaking to stop.
The second quake had a magnitude of 7.5, and its epicentre was in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province. An official from Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said it was independent of the earlier tremor and not an aftershock. The corpse count in Turkey has exceeded 1,650, while some 1,000 are confirmed to have died in Syria. The WHO has warned that those numbers are likely to increase as much as eight times, as rescuers find more victims in the rubble. "We always see the same thing with earthquakes, unfortunately, which is that the initial reports of the numbers of people who have died or who have been injured will increase quite significantly in the week that follows," the WHO’s senior emergency officer for Europe, Catherine Smallwood, told AFP. Ms Smallwood added that the snowy conditions will leave many people without shelter, adding to the dangers. 
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