BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 8. Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go to the provinces affected by the
earthquake to get acquainted with the progress of search and rescue
operations on the spot, Trend experiences.
The president will first go to the Kahramanmaras area after which
will go to the earthquake’s epicenter, the Pazarcik space.
In addition, it’s anticipated that he may also go to Hatay, which
was additionally severely broken by the earthquake.
An earthquake with a magnitude of seven.7 hit southeastern
Türkiye on Feb. 6, 2023. The earthquake occurred at a depth of
seven kilometers within the Pazarcik area of Kahramanmaras Province.
The provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye, Malatya,
Adiyaman, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, and Kahramanmaras had been
subjected to extreme destruction.
The quake’s epicenter was situated 26 km away from the
metropolis of Gaziantep with a inhabitants of about 1.06 million.
Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority
mentioned that three extra earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4-6.6 rocked
Gaziantep province in south-eastern Türkiye. As a results of the
earthquake that hit Türkiye, robust tremors had been additionally felt in
Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Cyprus.
According to the newest knowledge, because of the
earthquake, 6,234 folks had been killed, 37,011 folks had been injured,
and 5,894 buildings had been destroyed.
