This is the Guardian.

Today, two earthquakes have hit Turkey and Syria within 12 hours of each other.

How will people there recover?

It was in the early hours of Monday morning while people were still sleeping that the tremors started.

In Ghazian tap in southern Turkey, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale had hit

just 11 miles below the ground. And within minutes, it had destroyed almost everything in its path.

A apartment building's crumbled and schools, mosques and hospitals were severely damaged,

thousands of them across southern and central Turkey.

And also into northern Syria, a place that is still so deeply scarred by almost 12 years of civil war.

As far away as Lebanon and in Israel, in Greece and in Cyprus, people felt the tremors too.

Then another earthquake struck.

We don't know yet how many people have been killed in this disaster,

but they certainly number in the thousands.

A mid-heavy snow, search and rescue teams are scrabbling through the rubble of fallen buildings,

trying to save those who can be saved.

From the Guardian, I'm Hanimor, today in focus, the human cost of Turkey's worst natural

disaster in decades.

Ruth Michelson, you're a reporter based in Istanbul for the Guardian.

And we're speaking on Monday morning. I know you're going to be traveling to Kayseri,

which is a city in the middle of Turkey, straight after this.

You know, that's as close as you can safely get to the epicenter of the earthquake that's happened

this morning. Can you start off by just telling me the basics of what's happened?

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