The AFAD said a total of four buildings in ... More than 17,000 people were also killed in a powerful earthquake in north-western Turkey in 1999.

The Turkish disaster management agency AFAD on Monday raised the number of confirmed fatalities from the Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey to 41,156. That increased the overall death toll in both Turkey ...

two successive earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.6 in magnitude hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, causing significant loss of life and massive destruction to property and infrastructure. AFAD's ...

Two years on from the earthquakes, the number of missing ... of the missing people was formed within Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (Afad) - a government agency that operates under the ...

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Emirgrazi region of Turkey two days ago. AFAD, Turkiye's disaster management agency, said that close to 10,000 aftershocks have hit the region affected by the ...

TASS/. The death toll from devastating earthquakes in Turkey has passed 36,000, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said in a statement on Thursday. "The number of ...

The aftershocks of the earthquake could also manifest ... A worker from Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) carried the boy away and handed him over to health workers ...

The earthquake has already resulted in thousands of casualties in Turkey and Syria. Credit: Ilyas Akengin / AFP via Getty Images UPDATE: Feb. 22, 2023, 1:20 p.m. EST This story was updated to ...

The death toll from the February 6 earthquakes reached 45,089, the Disaster and Emergency Presidency (AFAD) announced today (March 1). Some 11,020 aftershocks followed the two massive earthquakes ...

As the search and rescue effort for buried survivors of the Feb. 6 earthquake started to wind down in Turkey, demolition ... general manager of the agency, AFAD, said 40 aftershocks were of ...

‘I have never had such a terrible day,’ said Ahmed, whose interview was interrupted by a phone call with news from the earthquake zone ... at around 13:30 local time. Turkey’s disaster and emergencies ...