A home security video camera captured the first moments of an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale. The video lasts 70 seconds, after which the camera crashes…
A little later, buildings will begin to collapse and people die, but just looking at these terrible frames of the first seconds, one can at least approximately imagine what they felt.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today, Friday, again acknowledged, responding to criticism, that the reaction of the Turkish authorities to the deadly earthquakes is not as fast as the government would like. He also said that the death toll in the country from the earthquake had risen to 18,991 people and stressed: “So many buildings were affected that, unfortunately, we were not able to organize the work as quickly as we wanted.”
The death toll in two countries, Turkey and Syria, has topped 21,000. If you want to express your solidarity and help the people left homeless, our publication previously reported addresseswhere you can take clothes, medicines and other necessary things.
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