Description

The 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake was a devastating seismic event that occurred on October 30th and affected vast swathes of both countries. With a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale, the earthquake had devastating consequences for many of the millions of people that live across the Northeast Aegean region, as well as the wider region. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, at least thirty-eight people died, seven of whom were from Syria, with the remainder from Turkey.