Massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake In Turkey

[bingham67]

Survivors in northern Syria scrawl heartbreaking message on rubble

Desperate survivors in quake-hit northern Syria scrawled a heartbreaking message on rubble as the war-ravaged area waited for help that never came.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Have Syria been overlooked in this?

 

[Rroff]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624857794414276621

Higher death toll than the Japanese quake & tsunami and Turkey's deadliest since 1268

Estimated 155K still trapped according to a comment there - 100-180K according to other sources. At this point most of those probably aren't going to make it if they are still alive.

 

[Sankari]

Survivors in northern Syria scrawl heartbreaking message on rubble

Desperate survivors in quake-hit northern Syria scrawled a heartbreaking message on rubble as the war-ravaged area waited for help that never came.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Have Syria been overlooked in this?

Not overlooked, just very difficult to reach.

 

[Scougar]

Good grief. This is absolutely gut wrenching reading these figures, and it isn't even over yet

 

[Rroff]

One of my colleagues niece I think they said married a Turkish guy and just gone out to live with his parents for 3 months - apparently several of the closest apartment buildings to them collapsed but theirs held up.

EDIT: Apparently they aren't married and weren't at the apartment when it happened.

I might have a few details wrong as my colleague was going into a lot of details not very clearly but from what my colleague said they were staying with the guy's brother only a few miles from the epicentre - my colleague's niece's partner happened to be awake when it started and got them all out the house, they spent the rest of the night in their cars, brother's house partially collapsed a few hours later and his parent's apartment has loads of cracks in it so they aren't allowed back in to get their stuff. First couple of days they were living out of their cars and a shop which survived where the owner was letting them use the toilet and shower, etc. and now living out of a sports centre and their cars. Trying to get back to the UK but it is not easy with the situation. Sounds like all his family survived but they've got no homes to go back to.

 

[Freakbro]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624857794414276621

Higher death toll than the Japanese quake & tsunami and Turkey's deadliest since 1268

Yea, it's not just been the severity and shallowness of the quake itself, but that it happened at night when most people were in and asleep has exacerbated the disaster.

 

[Minusorange]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1625141492925845510

Another crazy picture car & building become one

 

[Baron C]

Devastating,
A family friend had built an apartment block to house his extended family 30+ Inc his parents. All it seems have perished in the quake.
He came here in the early nineties and had been successful. He was working here in London when the quake hit, everyone of his family lost.

 

[Hades]

So desperately sad

 

[Rroff]

Devastating,
A family friend had built an apartment block to house his extended family 30+ Inc his parents. All it seems have perished in the quake.
He came here in the early nineties and had been successful. He was working here in London when the quake hit, everyone of his family lost.

Sadly lots of stories like this with this quake - the human toll is immense.

 

[kakarott]

Survivors in northern Syria scrawl heartbreaking message on rubble

Desperate survivors in quake-hit northern Syria scrawled a heartbreaking message on rubble as the war-ravaged area waited for help that never came.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Have Syria been overlooked in this?

Yep just like when their government was slaughtering them.

 

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1625526866734903299

 

[stuman]

Reading some news arrivals about the government in these areas allowing developers to build below regulation for a “fee”. Bagged them £2.6B at the cost of 50,000 lives.

There is a reason for regulation.

 

[jpaul]

How the inhabitants of San Francisco look upon this - must make you skeptical about trusting building standards/expertise - there but by ..

 

[flea.rider]

there's sure to be a lot of arrests of developers an gov officials after this .. well i hope ..

 

[kylew_is_back]

Survivors in northern Syria scrawl heartbreaking message on rubble

Desperate survivors in quake-hit northern Syria scrawled a heartbreaking message on rubble as the war-ravaged area waited for help that never came.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Have Syria been overlooked in this?

ofcourse, because Assad is Putin's ally.

 

[StriderX]

ofcourse, because Assad is Putin's ally.

Ah yes and not because Assad is trying to paint us sad westoids as being callous, uncaring people by blocking aid from getting through... no it's because we're mean to the enchanting, lovely fellow in the Kremlin whose only crime is being too nice.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Reading some news arrivals about the government in these areas allowing developers to build below regulation for a “fee”. Bagged them £2.6B at the cost of 50,000 lives.

There is a reason for regulation.

Bargain.

 

[robfosters]

Former premier league footballer Christian Atsu has been confirmed to have died after his body was finally located.

 

[imtoooldforthis]

I met him once outside Goodison Park, very polite chap. RIP