Turkey Earthquake June 2024. One year after the earthquake killed over 53,500 people, turkey's southern provinces are still extremely damaged by the disaster and face an opaque reconstruction. Five days after a devastating earthquake struck southern turkey and northern syria last year, the world witnessed a miracle:
At 4:17am, when most people were asleep in their homes, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit southeastern turkey, near its border with northern syria. Millions of people across turkey on tuesday mourned the loss of more than 53,000 friends, loved ones and neighbors in the country’s catastrophic earthquake a year ago.