{"id":14546,"date":"2023-02-07T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14546"},"modified":"2023-02-07T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:02:29","slug":"more-than-2600-dead-as-7-8-magnitude-quake-jolts-turkiye-and-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/02\/07\/more-than-2600-dead-as-7-8-magnitude-quake-jolts-turkiye-and-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 2600 dead as 7.8 magnitude quake jolts Turkiye and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>More than 2600 dead as 7.8 magnitude quake jolts Turkiye and Syria<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A powerful earthquake struck Turkiye\u2019s southern provinces and neighboring Syria, leaving at least 1,651 people dead within Turkish borders and killing almost 1.000 people in war-torn Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers and residents frantically searched for survivors under the rubble of buildings in multiple cities on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will observe seven days of national mourning for the victims of Monday\u2019s earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA national mourning period has been declared for seven days. Our flag will be hoisted at half-mast until sunset on Sunday, February 12, 2023, in all our national and foreign representative offices,\u201d Erdogan said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The quake, felt as far away as Cairo, was centred north of the city of Gaziantep in an area about 95km (60 miles) from the Syrian border.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said 16 structures collapsed in Sanliurfa and 34 in Osmaniye. Broadcasters\u00a0<em>TRT<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Haberturk<\/em>\u00a0showed footage of people picking through building wreckage, moving stretchers and seeking survivors in the city of Kahramanmaras, where it was still dark.<\/p>\n<p>In Syria, state-run SANA news agency reported that at least 968 people were killed and over 2,400 others were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The quake in T\u00fcrkiye occurred at a depth of 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) and was followed by 145<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>aftershocks, including two magnitude 6.6 and 6.5 quakes that struck southeastern Gaziantep province, according to Vice President Fuat Oktay.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue and relief efforts are continuing in full force and there is currently no tsunami threat that would affect T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Eastern Mediterranean coasts, according to AFAD.<\/p>\n<p>Sources : TRT &amp; APP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2600 dead as 7.8 magnitude quake jolts Turkiye and Syria &nbsp; A powerful earthquake struck Turkiye\u2019s southern provinces and neighboring Syria, leaving at least 1,651 people dead within Turkish borders and killing almost 1.000 people in war-torn Syria. Rescue workers and residents frantically searched for survivors under the rubble of buildings in multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[2821,2822,2776],"class_list":["post-14546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-earth-quake","tag-syria","tag-turkiye"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14549,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions\/14549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}