An earthquake has rocked Morocco’s Atlas mountains, killing nearly 300 people and flooring buildings in several surrounding governorates. The interior ministry said on Saturday morning the preliminary death toll stood at 296, with another 156 injured. However, as the quake hit mountainous areas, access to victims is believed to be difficult. The[…]
The Johannesburg Emergency Services says its disaster management teams are on high alert to respond to any eventuality following this morning’s earth tremor that hit large parts of Gauteng. The tremor with an estimated 4.8 magnitude was felt as far as Pretoria. It is believed the epicenter is in Boksburg on the[…]
Istanbul, Turkey – When the bed Hacer Guven, 81, was sleeping in plunged all the way from the fourth floor to the ground floor of her apartment building in Antakya, in Turkey’s southernmost province of Hatay, the impact of the February 6 earthquake was felt as far away as Istanbul, where[…]
Over 1,500 pets have been rescued, so far, since the twin earthquakes hit southern Turkiye, a non-profit organisation said Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. “More than three weeks after the deadly earthquake in Turkiye, the animal rescue team from Humane Society International is still finding dogs and cats alive in abandoned apartments,[…]
After yet another 5.6 earthquake hit Türkiye, three weeks after a quake that devastated parts of the country and neighbouring Syria, global wealth management group Oasis met with the Turkish Consul General of Cape Town on Monday morning at Cape Town International Airport to hand over much needed supplies to[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis The disastrous earthquakes that devastated southeastern Türkiye and Northern Syria earlier this month and again on February 20 calls for a dedicated and continued global humanitarian response. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show on Friday morning, Gift of the Givers team leader for search and rescue Ahmed[…]
Turkish rescuers pulled a 14-year-old boy and two men nearly 11 days after the huge earthquake, a minister said on Friday, as rescue efforts wind down. Osman, 14, was rescued 260 hours after the 7.8-magnitude tremor struck Türkiye’s southeast and Syria, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter. He shared[…]
The World Bank estimated in 2021 that retrofitting or rebuilding millions of residential buildings in Turkey to withstand an earthquake would cost almost half a trillion dollars. In December 2021, the Washington-based bank, which provides loans and grants to governments, said it was providing the Turkish government with “technical assistance” to help it meet[…]
Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Türkiye and Syria on Saturday five days after one of the region’s worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher. In Kahramanmaras, close to the epicentre in south Türkiye, there were fewer[…]
The presence of mind of a 19-year-old woman saved her entire family from getting trapped under the rubble of their house when two deadly earthquakes struck southern Turkiye, Anadolu News Agency reports. Umit Aslanoglu got out of her bed when her dog started barking incessantly. Just as she felt the first tremors,[…]
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