The death toll from the quake is expected to rise sharply as many more people are believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings.
At least 360 people were killed and several others remained trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake jolted southern Turkey and northern Syria, with tremors also reported in Egypt, Cyprus, Lebanon and Israel, making it the region’s deadliest quake in over a decade.... [+]the United States Geological Survey, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 4:17 a.m. local time followed by a 6.7 magnitude aftershock just 11 minutes later.
The quake had a shallow depth of only 17.9 kilometers with the epicenter located just 20 miles from the major Turkish city of Gaziantep. The death toll from the quake is expected to rise sharply as hundreds have been hospitalized with injuries and many more are believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings.
Across the border in Syria, the death toll is expected to be in the hundreds with most of the devastation taking place in the region held by anti-Assad rebels with limited access to healthcare facilities.that at least 76 deaths have been reported in Turkey, 237 deaths in parts of Syria controlled by the Assad regime and 47 in Syria’s rebel-controlled areas.
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