He devastating earthquake that this Monday hit Turkey and Syria, leaves a terrible trail of destruction behind it, with more than a thousand fatalities and thousands of injured, balance sheets that only increase.
The very strong earthquake has also caused numerous collapses, such as that of a multi-storey building shown in the video that you illustrate these lines: in a matter of seconds, as the shocking images show, collapses and is reduced to rubble and a cloud of dust.
The tremor, according to the Turkish authorities, has reached a magnitude of 7.4, although the United States Geological Survey raises it to 7.8. The epicenter has been recorded 30 kilometers west-northwest of Gaziantep (Turkey) and about 108 kilometers north-northwest of Aleppo (Syria), at a depth of seven kilometers.
It happened in the middle of the night, at 04:17 local time, and around fifty aftershocks have happened to the main earthquake, including one of magnitude 6.4 just a few minutes later and another 6.6 hours later. late. Fatalities number in the hundreds, but the number is expected to continue to rise.
Source: Lasexta
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