To be in your home, where you are stable and safe, and suddenly you find yourself fleeing from it, to become homeless because it is collapsing before your eyes due to an earthquake, and you may have loved ones or relatives under its ruins.This is what happened in the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria (2023).
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Two earthquakes struck southern Turkey , the first occurred at 4:17 am local time (1:17 am UTC ) on February 6 , 2023, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was west of the city of Gaziantep , and its impact extended to Syria . Also, due to the proximity of its epicenter to the Syria n - Turkish border, and this earthquake is considered one of the strongest earthquakes, in the history of Turkey and Syria , nine hours later, at 13:24 noon local time (10:24 UTC ), another earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 7.5 on the scale. Richter, in the Ekin Ozu region near the city of Kahramanmaraş , the number of victims of these two earthquakes in Turkey and Syria , according to preliminary estimates, reached more than 41,000 dead and 120,000 injured, and caused severe material damage in both countries .
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