7.8 Earthquake kills over 250 people in Syria. In Turkey kills 284, injures 2.000

UPDATE: At least 284 people died in Turkey from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country’s southeast on Monday, Vice President Fuat Oktay said, updating earlier figures.

Oktay said more than 2,300 people were injured in one of Turkey’s biggest quakes in at least a century, adding that search and rescue work continued in several major cities.
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UPDATE: Some 237 people have been killed and 639 injured in Syria in the powerful earthquake, assistant health minister Ahmed Dhamiriyeh has told state television.

The affected swath of Syria is divided between government-held and opposition-held areas.
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At least 111 people were killed in a powerful earthquake in northern Syria, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Monday, citing the country’s Health Ministry.

An aide to the Syrian health minister noted that the number of victims could increase. He added that medical teams had been dispatched to Aleppo, Latakia and Hama from other regions of the country, and medicines had also been sent.

Turkey’s disaster management agency AFAD said on Monday that 76 people had been killed and 440 injured in the massive earthquake that reverberated through several provinces in the south of the country.

“76 of our citizens lost their lives in Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep, and 440 citizens were injured in Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay and Kilis,” AFAD said.

The earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling buildings and sending panicked residents pouring outside in a cold winter night. At least 100 were killed, and the toll was expected to rise.

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Magnitude Mw 7.8
Region CENTRAL TURKEY
Date time 2023-02-06 01:17:32.6 UTC
Location 37.23 N ; 37.02 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 37 km WNW of Gaziantep, Turkey / pop: 1,065,000 / local time: 04:17:32.6 2023-02-06
26 km ENE of Nurdağı, Turkey / pop: 12,800 / local time: 04:17:32.6 2023-02-06