Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Blinken pledges long-term aid for Turkey after devastating earthquakes
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Turkey on Monday the United States would help “for as long as it takes” after deadly earthquakes two weeks ago, as Turkish authorities carried out wide-scale demolition of damaged buildings.
- Washington has sent a search and rescue team to Turkey, along with medical supplies, concrete-breaking machinery and additional funding in humanitarian aid that also covers Syria.
- Blinken on Sunday toured an area devastated by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks that killed more than 47,000 people in southern Turkey and northwest Syria.
- Total U.S. humanitarian assistance to support the earthquake response in the two countries has reached $185 million, the U.S. State Department has said.
- [Death Toll] was expected to climb further, with some 385,000 apartments in the country known to have been destroyed or seriously damaged and many people still missing.
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Earthquakes that killed thousands in Syria and Turkey are world’s deadliest in nearly two decades
- As of Feb. 16, ten days after the initial 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region, more than 41,000 people are known to have died. That earthquake was only the start of the growing disaster, with another 5.7 magnitude quake hitting the following day and hundreds of aftershocks in between.
- The earthquakes are the deadliest to occur in the world since a massive 2005 quake in Pakistan killed more than 70,000 people.
- In 2011, nearly 20,000 people were killed after a 9.0 quake off of Japan’s coast triggered a tsunami.
- And the year before [2010] that, a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti devastated the capital city, Port au Prince, with a death toll estimated at 200,000 or more.
- 2018 in Indonesia at least 4,340 people were killed by the earthquake and its torrential aftermath, including at least 1,200 in the tsunami
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Keep Praying’: Survivors Still Being Found in Quake Rubble, Operation Blessing Relief Effort Underway
- Rescuers are still finding some survivors amid the rubble… in Turkey and Syria. It’s the worst natural disaster in Turkey’s history with at least 35,500 now known to be dead. Nearly 32,000 of those people died in Turkey with at least 3,500 more in Syria.
- The destruction zone in Turkey after those two massive earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks is stunning in its magnitude. As a comparison, it is the same size as the area north of New York City all the way to the south of Washington D.C., including New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and part of Pennsylvania.
- Diego Traverso, Operation Blessing’s international director of disaster relief, says the ministry is rushing to meet needs as quickly as possible.
- “We want to be in the center of the action where the people need it, where, not only the people that are suffering… Keep praying for us, keep praying for the victims, keep praying for our volunteers, for our teams we’re deploying right now. Our experts are gonna be arriving in the next couple hours, water engineer, doctor, health team… the health is so needed.”
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Strong earthquake shakes New Zealand
- The temblor hit the Cook Strait off the coast of the capital Wellington at 7:38 p.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said, adding it was at a depth of 46 miles.
- The USGS said it was a 5.7 magnitude strike while its New Zealand counterpart, GeoNet, registered it as a magnitude 6.1.
- More than 61,000 people reported experiencing the temblor, GeoNet said, explaining that the depth it hit means “it was felt more widely and strongly.”
- A second earthquake, this one a magnitude 4.0, was registered at 8 p.m. near Taumarunui, which is about 227 miles north of Wellington.
- No tsunami warning has been issued.
- The earthquakes hit as New Zealand combats the effects of a cyclone that wreaked havoc on the North Island this week.
- On Tuesday, the country declared a National State of Emergency for only the third time in its history.
- “It is already a really stressful time for people
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Turkey Probes Contractors as Earthquake Deaths Pass 33,000
- The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria rose to 33,185 and was certain to increase as search teams find more bodies.
- As despair bred rage at the agonizingly slow rescues, the focus turned to assigning blame.
- Turkey’s construction codes meet current earthquake-engineering standards, at least on paper, but they are rarely enforced, explaining why thousands of buildings toppled over or pancaked down onto the people inside.
- Rescue crews have been overwhelmed by the widespread damage that has affected roads and airports, making it even harder to move quickly.
- Erdogan has acknowledged the initial response was hampered by the damage. He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and home to 13.5 million people.
- In Syria’s northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the rescue group the White Helmets.
- The overall death toll in Syria stood at 3,553 on Saturday, although the 1,387 deaths reported for government-held parts of the country hadn’t been updated in days. Turkey’s death toll was 29,605 as of Sunday
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places
Important Takeaways:
- Death Toll in Turkey-Syria Earthquake Surges Past 19,000, Rescue Efforts Still Underway
- More than 19,000 people have now died along the Turkey-Syria border from this week’s catastrophic earthquakes. Rescuers are working as quickly as they can as the “survival window” closes fast.
- Time is running out to find survivors in the rubble, now that the first critical 72 hours have passed. But there have still been some miracles.
- A little girl was found alive alongside her father who, as they were loaded into an ambulance, whispered “I love you all.”
- And in the Turkish city of Malatya, a man was found alive who had been trapped under concrete for 65 hours.
- But the losses are staggering. Many victims were refugees who fled the civil war in Syria.
- The final death toll from Turkey and Syria will probably not be known for weeks because of the sheer amount of rubble.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places
Important Takeaways:
- California hasn’t seen a catastrophic earthquake recently. But ‘quiet’ period won’t last
- This week’s catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria is just the latest warning of the potential risks for California and other seismically active areas.
- The San Andreas Fault is capable of similar activity.
- “We’ve had 7.8 earthquakes in our historic past. We’ve had a great run without them, but it’s important to be prepared for these possibilities in the future,”
- The 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of San Francisco and the 1857 quake that ruptured a length of the fault from Monterey County through Los Angeles County and into the Cajon Pass
- “There will be 7.8s in our future. Absolutely. We have the faults, we’ve seen it in the past, it will happen again,” said seismologist Lucy Jones, a research associate at Caltech. “The timing of them, as far as we can tell, is random.
- A U.S. Geological Survey simulation of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Southern California led researchers to determine that it was plausible such a quake could cause nearly 1,800 deaths and 50,000 injuries, and destroy major utilities carrying fuel, power and water.
- In Northern California, a simulation of a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault east of San Francisco showed that there could be at least 800 deaths from the quake, plus hundreds more from fires afterward.
- A magnitude 7.5 quake on the Puente Hills fault — which runs underneath highly populated areas of L.A. and Orange counties — could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people, according to the USGS
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places
Important Takeaways:
- Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria live updates: Death toll soars past 11,000 from the deadliest quake in a decade
- The death toll from Monday’s devastating earthquakes has soared past 11,000 and is expected to rise.
- The temblor has become the deadliest since Japan’s 9.0-magnitude quake in 2011 sparked a triple catastrophe that left more than an estimated 20,000 people dead.
- The death toll has risen to 11,719.
- In Turkey, at least 9,057 have died, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Another 40,910 are injured, according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, and 8,000 people have been rescued from the rubble alive.
- In Syria, at least 2,662 people total have died, which includes at least 1,262 in government-held areas and at least 1,400 in rebel-held territories. More than 22,000 people are injured in government-held areas, according to the Syrian Health Ministry, and more than 2,700 are injured in rebel-held territories, according to the White Helmets. Desperate efforts to rescue survivors continue in Turkey and Syria as frigid conditions hamper progress in some areas.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has acknowledged problems with the relief effort after visiting the affected areas Wednesday.
- A civil war and shattered roads slow aid to quake-hit Syria
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Powerful quake leaves thousands dead in Turkey and Syria
- More than 5,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria
- Thousands of buildings collapsed in both countries and aid agencies are particularly worried about northwestern Syria, where more than 4 million people were already relying on humanitarian assistance.
- Freezing weather conditions are further endangering survivors and complicating rescue efforts, as more than 100 aftershocks have struck the region.
- The quake, one of the strongest to hit the region in more than 100 years, struck 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) east of Nurdagi, in Turkey’s Gaziantep province, at a depth of 24.1 kilometers (14.9 miles), the United States Geological Survey said.
- The WHO warned on Monday that the toll could hit 20,000, and on Tuesday said 23 million people – including 1.4 million children – could be affected.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Ancient castle used by Romans and Byzantines destroyed in Turkey earthquake
- The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday has badly damaged Gaziantep Castle, a historic site and tourist attraction in southeastern Turkey.
- The castle collapsed during the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in the early hours of February 6.
- “Some of the bastions in the east, south and southeast parts of the historical Gaziantep Castle in the central Şahinbey district were destroyed by the earthquake, the debris was scattered on the road,” Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
- So far, there have been more than 18 recorded aftershocks measuring 4 or higher on the Richter scale since the initial tremor, one of the strongest to hit Turkey in a century.
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