In the early hours of Monday morning, at 4.17 a.m., beneath the ancient city of Ghazian

tap, the earth rumbled and shook.

A second 7.6 quake rocked the center of the country, making the rescue efforts even more dangerous.

A wave of destruction was unleashed across southern Turkey and over the border in northern Syria.

Satellite images show entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble.

We're trying to warm up with this fire, we're trying to survive without food or water.

But the defining images of this disaster are the ones that show the human cost.

In Sarmadar, north of Aleppo in Syria, a man digs through the rubble with his bare hands.

There's a small cry and then the face of a young girl emerges, buried up to her shoulders.

She looks at the camera, terrified.

As her father calls out, don't worry, daddy's here.

But not every story ends with a family reunited.

Just 30 kilometres south of that scene, in Jinderis, a newborn baby girl is found alive in the rubble.

The umbilical cord still attached to her mother.

But her mother is dead and so is her father and her four siblings.

These are just a few snapshots of the unfolding tragedy.

For the rescue teams, they're facing freezing temperatures and a race against time.

But in war-torn Syria, which has been isolated from much of the west for years now,

aid is struggling to trickle in at all.

Meanwhile, in Turkey, shock is turning to anger against the government.

We have no electricity. We have no additional machines.

We have no support yet from the government.

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