According to Erdogan, 8,000 will be recovered from the rubble while they are still alive. However, the death toll is rising, now reaching 41,000 between the two affected countries. Saudi humanitarian aid arrives in Syria and a UN delegation in rebel-held territory
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The search for the survivors of the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey on February 6 continues. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said more than 8,000 people were recovered alive from the rubble, while the number of wounded discharged from hospitals has exceeded 81,000. However, the number of victims continues to rise: there is now talk of almost 41,000 dead, 31,974 of them in the state of Ankara and around 9,300 in Syria. According to Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, “We are witnessing the worst natural disaster in the WHO European Region in a century and we still know the magnitude of it”. Meanwhile, today, February 14, a UN delegation entered rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria for the first time to assess the needs of the hardest-hit regions. And for the first time in 12 years, a Saudi cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid in Syria landed at a central government-controlled airport. Saudi Arabia has been openly opposed to Bashar al-Assad’s government in Damascus since 2012.
The Head of the Civil Protection Curcio in Turkey
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Early in the afternoon of today also arrived at Turkey’s Hatay Airport, the head of the Italian civil defense, Fabrizio Curcio, who had arrived some time earlier at Hatay Airport in Turkey. His journey will stop in Alessandretta, where the Nave San Marco della Marina brings ashore the field hospital made available by the Piedmont Region and useful goods to support the Turkish population. Curcio will then visit the Italia camp in Antioch and the site identified by the Turkish authorities to house the Italian hospital. Nave San Marco will continue sailing in the coming days towards Beirut, where a camp destined for Syria, which can accommodate 1000 people, will land. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen also arrived in Turkey, where he met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu. “I came to express my solidarity with the Turkish people,” he wrote on Twitter in the morning.
The port of Iskenderun in Turkey destroyed by the February 6th earthquake – ©Ansa
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In the meantime, we keep digging to recover the survivors: time is running out. And as the death toll mounts, signs of hope are also coming from the quake-hit areas. Anadolu News Agency reports that two brothers were rescued after 198 hours in Kahramanmaras province. The Guardian instead tells the story of Dima, a woman who was pulled from the rubble of her home twice in the space of a week: the first time she was seven months pregnant; the second was with her newborn baby. The double rescue took place in Jindayris in north-western Syria. After being rescued from the rubble with initially minor injuries, Dima gave birth to her baby Adnan at a hospital in Afrin supported by the Syrian American Medical Society. Their house, to which they had returned, collapsed again three days later. Adnan was hospitalized in critical condition, suffering from severe dehydration and jaundice but responding well to treatments. Dima instead suffered injuries to his lower limbs. About 10 million children live in the earthquake zones, according to Unicef.
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Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s decision to open the two border crossings, Bab Al-Salam and Al Ra’ee, to allow for the timely delivery of humanitarian aid. “As the number of earthquakes continues to rise, providing food, nutrition, shelter, shelter, winter supplies and other life-saving supplies to the millions affected is of the utmost urgency,” said Guterres, who stressed, “The opening of these crossings is in addition to facilitating the… humanitarian access, speeding up visa approvals and making travel easier, will allow more aid to come in faster.”
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According to the diagram – interferogram – created by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, the Earth observation program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, the earthquake caused a ground displacement of about four meters Anatolian near the fault. “The earthquake was so strong that it caused massive deformation of the ground,” says the Copernicus website. “The areas with the greatest shift are those near the Anatolian Fault, where analysis of the radar data shows a shift of about 4 meters in the satellite’s line of sight”, ie the line connecting the sensor to its target. The measurements were carried out by comparing data collected on January 28 and February 9.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria left a trail of death and destruction. An event of this magnitude has also put the seismic risk back in the limelight in Italy, where in the past (even in the recent past) there have been earthquakes with very serious consequences. But Can such a strong earthquake happen in our country? And what are the areas of highest risk?
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Let’s start with the story: “In Italy, we are never aware of an event that has achieved 7.5. This was the biggest we had 7.3 in Iblei 1693Carlo Doglioni, President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, told Sky TG24 in recent days
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“In terms of size and seismic hazard Italy doesn’t have the level of Turkey, in the sense that we do not anticipate magnitude 7.8 events,” Doglioni himself said in an interview with Il Messaggero. anyway”Our country is largely at risk from earthquakes and therefore it is not a problem that should be underestimated”
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