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  An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 struck the Southwest of Afsin town in Turkey on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake's epicentre was 38.078°N and 36.762°E. It occurred at 04:25 am on early Monday morning. It hit Afsin, a town of Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, at a depth of 10 km. According to the USGS, no casualties have been reported yet. Further details are still awaited. In February this year, a powerful earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale hit Syria and Turkey. It caused damage to several buildings and killed thousands of people in these two countries. The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced the rebuilding of 270,000 homes across the country to shelter homeless people. A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey again on 25 February. It killed one person, injured 110 people and destroyed 29 buildings. The epicentre of the earthquake was the Yesilyurt district in the Malatya province, w...

The Chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visited Syria on Wednesday for the first time after the earthquake. He travelled to Aleppo and Damascus in Syria. Tedros, the highest-ranking UN official, visited the country to check on earthquake victims. On Wednesday, he visited several hospitals and shelters for displaced people in Syria. He visited Syria from neighbouring Turkey via the Bab Al-Hawa crossing. After the earthquake, activists and emergency aid groups slammed the UN (United Nations) for its slow response. Earlier, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths also said that the UN had “so far failed the people in northwest Syria.” He demanded immediate help for earthquake victims in northwest Syria. Reportedly, after the February 6 earthquake, the United Nations appealed for $ 397 million to help earthquake victims in Syria. The UN said that around 420 trucks have entered Syria since the disaster. The first UN aid convoy was sent to Syria on Februa...

  On 6 February 2023, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern and central Turkey, as well as northern and western Syria, killing thousands of people and toppling residential buildings across the two countries. Many international organisations and countries sent relief aid to Turkey and Syria. However, it is still difficult to send aid to Syria. Syria is struggling to get aid even after the destructive earthquake. On Sunday, the United Nations said that the authorities were waiting for approval from the hardline group to send aid into the Opposition-controlled territory of Syria. The country is controlled by different groups, which makes it difficult for international organisations to send aid to Syria. Reportedly, the northern regions of Syria have been shattered by over a decade of conflict. Most parts of Syria are under the control of the Damascus government. The relief aid is split between rebel areas and Damascus. The northwest part of the country is divided...

  Two earthquakes that occurred in southern Turkey and Syria early on Monday morning and measured 7.8 and 7.5 on the Richter scale are still wreaking havoc around the world. International aid organisations, humanitarian organisations, military forces, government agencies, and business sector organisations have all been working to help the affected areas as the total number of fatalities reached 11,000 by Wednesday. Modern technology has been one area that has offered some solutions. Drones are helpful instruments during natural disasters like earthquakes, despite their growing reputation as weapons in contemporary conflict. Henk Jan Gerzee, chief product officer at the Digital Container Shipping Association, told Arab News on Wednesday at the LEAP conference in Riyadh that "drones for definitely play a big part in Turkiye as we speak." Drones can give a clearer picture of what has transpired, said Gerzee, who was on the panel discussing "Drones and Autonomous ...

  The World Health Organization (WHO) expects a significant jump in the death toll following a major earthquake and its aftershocks in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria that reduced many buildings to rubble. The magnitude 7.8 quake , which rattled southern Turkey early on Monday, was the worst to hit the country this century, killing more than 900 people there and about 550 across the border in Syria, according to officials.  I think we can expect the death toll to increase significantly," Rick Brennan, the WHO's regional emergency director for the Eastern Mediterranean, told Reuters. "There's been a lot of building collapses and it will increase more significantly around the epicentre of the earthquake." Brennan said WHO was boosting its staff in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, the epicentre of the earthquake, and exploring its options to send emergency medical teams to the area. He said rescue efforts were being hampered by aftershocks from the in...