Earthquake in Turkey again – video shows how apartment building collapses

The earth in Turkey and Syria does not come to rest.

The civil protection agency AFAD reports an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6.

• New earthquake

  with a

  magnitude of 5.6

  : The Turkish disaster agency AFAD reports one dead, several buildings collapsed

• After

  severe earthquakes

  in

  Turkey

  and

  Syria

  : the death toll rises to more than 50,000

• This news ticker on the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria is updated regularly.

Update from February 27, 2:00 p.m .

: After another aftershock in Turkey on Monday, the mayor of the city of Malatya Yeşilyurt, Mehmet Çınar, reported that there were at least two people buried under the rubble.

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: “I am currently at the top of the rubble of a destroyed building.

Unfortunately, people around here say that two people are under the rubble.

I was told they are father and daughter.”

New earthquake shakes Turkey: in Matalya, the earth trembles with a magnitude of 5.6

Update from February 27, 12:10 p.m .:

A new earthquake has shaken Turkey.

According to the civil protection agency AFAD, an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred in the Yesilyurt area of ​​the city of Malatya.

Authorities report one dead and nearly 70 injured.

29 buildings were destroyed in the aftershock.

A Twitter video shows a residential building in the city of Malatya collapsing with full force in the earthquake.

The multi-storey complex collapses.

The Turkish news portal EHA Medya shared the footage from a local newspaper on Twitter.

New earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6: The Turkish disaster agency AFAD reports one dead, several buildings collapsed

The earthquake occurred at a depth of around seven kilometers and was also felt in the surrounding towns.

A father and his daughter were trapped under the rubble, Yesilyurt Mayor Mehmet Cinar said on the AHaber broadcaster.

Rescue teams would be on site.

#Malatya'da meydana gelen 5.6 şiddetindeki depremde hasarlı binanın yıkılma anı kameraya yansıdıpic.twitter.com/EqD99092Bd

— EHA MEDYA (@eha_medya) February 27, 2023

After severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: the death toll rises to more than 50,000

First report from February 27th

Istanbul – Three weeks after the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria, the death toll has risen to more than 50,000.

The number of deaths in Turkey has risen to 44,347, said the head of the civil protection agency Afad, Yunus Sezer, on Sunday in Ankara.

5,900 deaths were recently reported from Syria.

• Severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: The chronology of a catastrophe on February 6, 2023

• 1:24 p.m. local time

  : 7.5-magnitude earthquake four kilometers from Ekinozu town, according to the United States Seismological Survey (USGS).

• 4:28 a.m., local time

  : 6.8 magnitude earthquake with the epicenter in southern Turkey's Kahramanmaras near the city of Gaziantep, 60 kilometers from the border with Syria.

• 4.17 a.m., local time

  : The 7.8-magnitude earthquake occurred east of Nurdagi in the Turkish province of Gaziantep and, according to the US earthquake monitor USGS, had its epicenter in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria. 

Foreign search and rescue teams have mostly left the earthquake area, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

But helpers from home and abroad were still following up on clues about missing people.

List of rubrics: © Screenshot GFZ Postdam