Drone footage showed rescuers in the Turkish city of Adana searching through the rubble of a collapsed building after a major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria
Erdogan said he could not predict how much the death toll would rise as search and rescue efforts continued.
"I was so scared, thought it will never stop. I took some things for my one-year old son and left the building." In Afrin, a Syrian opposition-held town, rescue workers from the White Helmets response organization searched in the pre-dawn darkness for people trapped in a collapsed building. Using only torchlight, they pulled a man in a white vest and dark trousers from the rubble, carrying him away for treatment.
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad held an emergency cabinet meeting to review the damage and discuss the next steps, his office said. The U.S. Geological Survey said quake struck at a depth of 17.9 km. It reported a series of earthquakes, one of 6.7 magnitude.“The combination of large magnitude and shallow depth made this earthquake extremely destructive," Mohammad Kashani, Associate Professor of Structural and Earthquake Engineering at the University of Southampton, said.
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