A new earthquake magnitude 5.4 shook the east of Turkey this Tuesday morning after just a day before a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the southeast of Turkey and northern Syria.
The new tremor is a replica of the first and its epicenter had a depth of 6829 kilometers. It is estimated that the death toll has already exceeded 5,000 people and they believe that the number grows with the passing of the hours. It also left significant material damage.
He freezing winter weather traversing both countries makes the plight of the thousands left injured or homeless more difficult and further complicates rescuers’ efforts to find survivors among the rubble.
(The consequences of Monday’s earthquake in Turkey. Credit: REUTERS)
Countries like Argentina, China, Mexico, Russia and Venezuela they send help. The Argentine Government offered humanitarian assistance to the population affected by the disaster through the Argentine Agency for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance–White Helmets (ACIAH)led by Sabina Frederic.
The assistance made available by Argentina covers Socio-health care, post-traumatic psycho-social support, and experienced logistics personnel for the assembly of UNHCR houses and management of camps for affected people and shelters. In addition, provision of water purification tablets and disinfectants.
On the other hand, a non-governmental Chinese rescue team left this Tuesday morning from an airport in eastern China to join relief efforts after the earthquake in Turkey.
For his part, Mexico It also ordered the dispatch of a team of specialists to help in the rescue efforts made up of 93 specialists from the National Defense Secretariat (Ministry), 37 from the Navy Secretariat and 15 from the Mexican Red Cross.
While Vladimir Putin, President of Russiaexpressed his condolences to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and assured that Moscow is ready to provide all necessary assistance to both countries.
In turn, the Government of Venezuela offered its readiness for “immediate support” to Syria and Turkey and released a statement in which it expressed the country’s readiness to prepare the “necessary help for the efforts of the governments of Turkey and Syria to recover, as soon as possible, the normal functioning of the affected regions.
