Turkey Disaster

Turkey quake revives debate over nuclear plant being built

In nuclear power plant construction, plants are designed to survive shaking that is more extreme than what’s been previously recorded in the area they’re sited

Turkey, Syria earthquake: How lack of toilets puts survivors at risk of disease

Few buildings have survived unscathed, and amenities like toilets and showers have all but vanished since the first tremor hit Turkey and Syria. Portable cabin lavatories have begun to spring up across the quake zone, but demand far outstrips supply

Explained: How the deadly Turkey earthquake has scarred children

The earthquake has exposed children to long-term trauma. Turkey's vice president, Fuat Oktay, said 574 children rescued from collapsed buildings had no surviving parents

Turkey Syria Earthquake: Boy, 9, rescued from the rubble after 5 days, wrapped in dead mother's arms

Search and rescue paramedic Jonathan Rousso said, "We were looking for a woman, we know there are a mother and child inside, and when we approached closer, it became obvious that all this while we were talking to the youngster, not Leyla

After 104 hours buried by Turkey earthquake, woman brought out alive

Kahraman lay still, strapped into the stretcher with her arms across her chest, her eyes shielded from the sudden light by dark glasses. Her younger sister Zuebeyde looked on and hugged a worker from the German International Search and Rescue (ISAR) team.

Turkey and Syria earthquake: Lessons for India and the seismically vulnerable North East

Located at the intersection of multiple tectonic plates, including the Pacific, Eurasian, and Indo-Australian, the North East region is part of the seismically active Benioff Zone and considered to be highly unstable

Watch: The moment NDRF team rescued a 6-year-old girl from debris in quake-hit Turkey

The NDRF is working to extricate live victims from under the rubble and providing first-aid to the injured, before handing them over to medical response authorities

Family of seven rescued after over 36 hours, baby born in rubble named Aya: Miraculous moments from Turkey, Syria quake

Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria has wreaked misery — the toll is now over 16,000, more are feared to be dead and thousands of buildings are destroyed. It’s a race against time for responders. But amid this gloom, there are some moments that give us hope

Turkey-Syria earthquake: What happened beneath the surface to cause such devastation?

The Turkey and Syria earthquakes have led to terrible destruction on a scale not seen in Europe for many decades. A key geological contribution to the devastation was the relatively shallow depth of the earthquake hypocentres: 18 km for the first 7.8 event and 10 km for the later 7.5 shock

Tsunamis, abandoned children and more: How social media is spreading misinformation about Turkey-Syria earthquake

A video that was widely shared on social media claimed to show a ‘tsunami’ caused by the earthquake on the southern Turkish coast. But analysis of the footage showed it to be from a March 2017 storm in the South African city of Durban