Thousands die in Turkey and Syria after 7.8 magnitude earthquake

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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More than 3,800 people have died and more than 15,000 are injured after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria. Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency says at least 5,600 buildings collapsed during and after the quake. Kit Miyamoto is structural engineer and is headed to Turkey tomorrow to join a team from his company who are already on the ground. He tells Anderson Cooper how the search and rescue teams approach collapsed and unstable buildings.

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0:00.0	Good evening. We begin tonight with the search for survivors in Turkey and Northern Syria
0:04.7	after one of the strongest earthquakes on record struck the area at the worst time imaginable
0:08.9	early in the morning with most people at home.
0:38.9	Those are just two buildings, two of more than 5,600 that have collapsed in the quake,
0:49.6	the aftershocks and the aftermath on the Turkish side. Already in Turkey and Syria, nearly
0:55.0	4,000 people are known to have died according to Turkish officials in Syrian state media.
0:59.7	The number has been climbing with each new update, nearly 19,000 more said to be injured.
1:04.6	A major international aid effort is gearing up, but the priority right now is search and
1:08.0	rescue. Take a look at this video from Sinan Turb from a town close to where the quake
1:12.4	was centered. For the last several hours now we've been watching crews there trying to
1:16.4	make their way to a 14 year old child trapped in the wreckage of a two story building.
1:20.9	They go as quickly as they can, but it is delicate and dangerous work and the team stopped
1:25.6	at one point to try to work out how to proceed. It's unclear what the team's condition is.
1:30.7	We do know, however, this is hardly the only such scene across the area. There are many.
1:35.2	Sinan's Jamanikarachi joins us now from Istanbul. What is the latest Jamanik?
1:40.4	Anderson, utter devastation across what is this massive earthquake zone that stretches
1:49.6	across 10 provinces in southern Turkey and across the border into government controlled
1:56.1	parts of Syria as well as the rebel-held northwest of a country. We're talking about a part
2:03.6	of Syria that where you find some of the country's most vulnerable women and children who
2:10.5	have been displaced several times over the past more than a decade of civil war. These
2:15.4	are people who are entirely reliant on international aid. This is coming at a time where they have
2:23.0	been facing a very, very harsh winter. Couldn't have happened at a worse time for the population
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