{"id":1844463,"date":"2023-02-12T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844463"},"modified":"2023-02-12T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T19:50:06","slug":"earthquake-death-toll-in-turkey-and-syria-surpasses-33000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/earthquake-death-toll-in-turkey-and-syria-surpasses-33000\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Death Toll In Turkey And Syria Surpasses 33,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fearthquake-death-toll-in-turkey-and-syria-surpasses-33000%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After the event, more than 33,000 people have died. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-surpasses-3600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Large earthquakes<\/a>\u00a0According to the latest estimates, Syria and Turkey were rocked last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon, Turkey&#8217;s officials reported 29605 deaths. The total for Syria was 3,553. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/turkey-detains-building-contractors-as-earthquake-deaths-rise-past-33000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a> It should be noted that the numbers for government-held areas of the country are not up to date every day.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/earthquake-death-toll-triples-in-third-day-as-thousands-more-feared-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numbers keep rising<\/a> Crews work to remove the rubble left behind by buildings that fell during the earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.5 magnitudes in Turkey and Syria. The need to shelter and eat as temperatures plummet below freezing continues to cause hardship for those who have survived.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u25b6\ufe0f Drone footage taken Feb. 11, 2023, shows the extent of the damage in Kahramanmaras. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49As Quake Death Toll Tops 25K, Survivors Are Still Being Found <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I1t9wYSElg\">https:\/\/t.co\/I1t9wYSElg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c1lqXhD5vO\">pic.twitter.com\/c1lqXhD5vO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Voice of America (@VOANews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VOANews\/status\/1624521128659288064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all the news has been grim, as there have been reports showing that even days following the tremors, people are being found alive. Among these bright spots, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1624760231820500992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to NBC News<\/a>, was a mother and child being found rescued after more than 150 hours. Pets, too, have been saved.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rescue workers save various animals trapped under the rubble in Turkey after deadly earthquakes hit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NaMcfHJlpj\">pic.twitter.com\/NaMcfHJlpj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1623764922596220933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A civil war in Syria that has lasted more than a decade and displaced millions of people has complicated the rescue situation.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said the world has \u201cfailed\u201d the people in northwest Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey rightly feel abandoned,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNReliefChief\/status\/1624701773557469184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he tweeted<\/a> from the Turkey-Syria border. \u201cLooking for international help that hasn\u2019t arrived. My duty and our obligation is to correct this failure as fast as we can. That\u2019s my focus now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Animated map of seismicity near Turkey quakes starting ~3am local time plotting Feb 6 M7.8 mainshock (pink), early aftershocks (orange), M7.5 aftershock to the north (tan), and subsequent aftershocks in the north (tan). Time vs. magnitude progression shown on bottom graph. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTa7qdZWzO\">pic.twitter.com\/TTa7qdZWzO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USGS_Quakes\/status\/1622765280802885633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The region is situated on major fault lines and experiences frequent earthquakes, but the latest tremors are proving to be historic in terms of deaths and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who declared seven days of national mourning, previously said his country had been shaken by its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestatesman.com\/world\/turkey-declares-seven-days-of-national-mourning-after-earthquakes-jolt-southern-provinces-1503152858.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cbiggest disaster\u201d<\/a> since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, which killed more than 30,000 people. Facing rising criticism over the nation\u2019s early response to the disaster, Erdogan also conceded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/08\/middleeast\/turkey-earthquake-public-anger-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cshortcomings.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Sunday, Turkish officials said they issued 113 arrest warrants in connection to buildings that collapsed, and 12 people, including contractors, have already been detained, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-64615349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Assistance has been\u00a0pouring in from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden said his administration authorized an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/02\/06\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-earthquakes-impacting-turkiye-and-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cimmediate\u201d response.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations is fully committed to supporting the response. Our teams are on the ground assessing the needs and providing assistance,\u201d United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/02\/1133177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 33,000 people are dead after massive earthquakes\u00a0rocked Turkey and Syria last week, according to the latest estimates. Officials in Turkey reported 29,605 deaths as of Sunday afternoon, while the total in Syria stood at 3,553, though the Associated Press noted the numbers from government-held parts of the country have not been updated in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1844466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18437,6499,6809,12146,7887,6500,7623],"class_list":["post-1844463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-18437","tag-death","tag-earthquake","tag-surpasses","tag-syria","tag-toll","tag-turkey"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}