Powerful Earthquake Strikes Syria and Turkey
Maia AlBarrak ’26 Staff Writer albarrakma@lakeforest.edu On February 6, 2023, southeast Turkey (officially the Republic of Türkiye) and northwest Syria suffered a catastrophic natural disaster. An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck both countries, leaving over 41,000 dead and 81,000 in critical conditions, with 47,000 buildings in destruction, according to World Vision. Syria and Turkey are in a region vulnerable to earthquakes due to their location on the boundary between the African Plate…
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