The ferocious
7.8-magnitude earthquake,
with its epicenter in southeastern
Turkey
near the
border with Syria
, which has killed more than 5,100 people and injured hundreds of thousands to date, experienced a moment of hope when a
baby was born in the rubble .
.
The mother had been buried under the remains of a building in Syria that had been demolished by the quake when she was ready to give birth.
And the miracle occurred when she ended up giving birth to a little boy who
emerged unharmed
from this natural catastrophe.
They rescue an uninjured baby but the mother did not survive
The good news in the midst of the disaster could not be complete, since the
mother of the baby could not survive.
Machines and men strive in the rescue work in a building collapsed by the earthquake.
Photo: EFE
A rescuer manages to pull the baby unharmed from the rubble in Syria.
Capture Twitter
In a video published through social networks by the
user
Ayhamalghzaly
, you can see how a man takes the newborn from the rubble and takes him away from the collapsed buildings, spreads the
Onda Cero medium.
"Hope is born from the womb of suffering,"
says the man next to a photo of the baby.
Two brothers under the rubble
Like the birth of the baby, many moving stories begin to emerge.
For example, another that a user also shared through his Twitter account.
In it, he recounts the experience of
two little brothers
who were trapped under the rubble of a building in Syria.
In the moving images you can see how the older of the two, about 10 years old, decides to
protect her little brother's head with her arm.
Why the earthquake in Turkey and Syria was devastating
The enormous number of
deaths and injuries, and the serious damage
caused by the earthquake that this Monday, February 6, devastated several towns in Turkey and Syria begins to find reasons.
The
location of the epicenter
of the earthquake, of 7.8 degrees,
the time it occurred
, the distant background and
the few rigorous security measures at the time of construction
help explain this deadly balance.
HIGH POPULATION
It is the strongest earthquake recorded in Turkey
since 1939, and hit a densely populated region.
The devastating effects of the earthquake in Turkey.
Photo: EFE
Roger Musson, a researcher for the British Geological Survey, explained to the AFP agency that since it happened at dawn, at 4:17 local time, "he surprised the
population sleeping
and the
the vast majority of the victims "were trapped when their houses collapsed."
Members of the emergency team carry the body of a person found in the rubble.
Photo: AP
In turn, the construction methods "were not really adequate for an area prone to large earthquakes," added the specialist.
He also remarked that the fracture line where the seismic movement occurred had been relatively calm in recent times.
A woman sits on the rubble as rescue teams search for people after the earthquake in Nurdagi, Turkey.
Photo: AP
REPLICAS
The region suffered another 7.5-magnitude tremor 7.5 hours later, confirming that a lot of power had built up that needed to be released.
On the other hand, the epicenter of the earthquake on Monday was relatively
shallow, just 17.9 kilometers
, and was located in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, where about two million people live.
Rescuers search for survivors under the rubble in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Monday.
Photo: REUTERS
LARGE DIMENSIONS EXTENSION
Musson says that the epicenter is not as important in this case as the
extension of the telluric movement
, along 100 kilometers, something rare.
"This means that within that margin of 100 km along the fault, everything" suffers the consequences of the tremor," he told AFP.
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