A Syrian boy searches building rubble for items to salvage in the regime-controlled town of Jableh in the province of Latakia, northwest of the capital, on February 10, 2023, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake. Karim SAHIB / AFP JABLEH, Syria -- Syria's coastal city of Jableh, a regime...
State seismologists on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 11, said an earthquake with a magnitude measuring 6.0 jolted waters off Davao Occidental. (Phivolcs) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the seismic event occurred at around 4:55 p.m. on Saturday. It was recorded...
The Philippine Embassy in Turkiye on Saturday, Feb. 11, said four Filipino families were evacuated from the city of Gaziantep and they were brought to shelter in the Turkish capital of Ankara as the country suffers from the devastating impact of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake early last week....
Five days after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, the Philippine inter-agency response team deployed to Ankara conducted a “hasty search” operation on Saturday, Feb. 11, to find survivors beneath the rubbles of collapsed buildings. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Hasty...
The remains of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Wilma Abulad Tezcan, who died in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkiye, will be brought to the Philippines, the Philippine Embassy in Turkiye said on Saturday, Feb. 11. Rescue workers look for survivors amid the rubble of a building in the rebel-held...
This aerial view shows collapsed buildings during the ongoing rescue operation in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor five days ago, in southeastern Türkiye, on February 10, 2023. OZAN KOSE / AFP ISTANBUL, Türkiye -- The apartments they once industriously spent so...
SYRIA -- International aid was trickling into parts of Türkiye and Syria on Saturday where rescuers toiled to pull children from rubble in areas devastated by a massive earthquake that has killed over 24,000 people. A winter freeze in the affected areas has hurt rescue efforts and compounded the...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has called for donations for the victims of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkiye and the neighboring country, Syria. An injured child awaits treatment at the Bab al-Hawa hospital following an earthquake, in the rebel-held northern countryside of Syria's Idlib...
BERLIN, Germany - A Turkish woman was rescued Friday after spending more than 100 hours trapped in the rubble of her earthquake-hit home underneath her husband's dead body, a German non-profit organisation said. It took a team of rescue workers over 50 hours to painstakingly make their way through...
The government should go beyond the holding of nationwide earthquake drills as it prepares for the eventuality of a massive earthquake or the “Big One” that can hit the Philippines at any given time, Senator Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay said on Friday, February 10. Binay issued the reminder as she...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo has expressed his sincerest condolences to the families of the two Filipinos who were confirmed to have died due to the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria last Feb. 6. (Jarl Schmidt/ Unsplash) "I am deeply saddened by the loss of our fellow Filipinos in Turkey. I...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) is studying the possibility of sending a second batch of emergency responders to earthquake-hit Turkiye that would replace the initial 82-man inter-agency response team tasked to assist in search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations. Assistant Secretary Bernardo...
