Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: immensity of destruction in images

Video four days after the earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey, the human record rises to 22,000 dead: it surpassed that of the earthquake of August 1999. The destruction is massive, and the rescuers try to Save survivors stuck under the rubble.

by video service of the world

Some victims remained stuck more than seventy hours under the rubble after the earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkey on February 6. Friday, February 10, the human record was more than 22,000 dead: it is a number higher than the balance sheet of the terrible earthquake that had shaken Turkey in August 1999 and left 17,000 dead.

Besides the human assessment, the material damage is immense, in Turkey as in Syria. The satellite images make it possible to appreciate the violence of the displacements of the field and the immensity of the destruction of buildings, under which victims are still waiting to be rescued.

/Media reports cited above.