Powerful earthquake: Last night (Monday), a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey, and subsequent earthquakes were felt in nearby countries - and throughout Israel.
More than 1,200 people were killed in Turkey and 326 in Syria as a result of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake - thousands more were injured. The earthquake caused massive damage and the collapse of dozens of buildings. Footage from the country shows, among other things, a high-rise building collapsing in seconds and attempts to rescue people trapped in the rubble.
Thousands more deaths are expected after 1,900 buildings collapsed in the earthquake in the south of the country.
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#Diyarbakır''da enkaz ıldın beğın bekleyen insanlar böyel ızığılendi.#deprem #acil pic.twitter.com/RMVfxLlnwh
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Anat Davidov and Gideon Oko spoke on 103fm with Oded Tadmor, who experienced the earthquake in the hotel where he was staying, and recreated the moments of terror.
""I'm fine, it's not obvious," Tadmor admitted, describing what happened: "A little after 4 a.m., I'm sleeping in my room, I wake up, the whole room is shaking. Pieces of the walls are falling to the floor, the windows are breaking, there was a storm outside, gusts of wind. Screams, shouts, the emergency lighting wasn't working. I ran to the stairwell, which was also really destroyed. I waited for it to calm down a bit. I still ran back to the room, took my wallet, passport, coat, because it's very cold here. After that, my roommate was also in the room next to me, he got stuck there. His door, because the walls moved, got stuck there.".
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Kahramanmaraş'ta enkaz alından kurtarılan bir aile. #deprem pic.twitter.com/JGJ2oAwKdc
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He added: "It was like a minute, walls falling, dust, all the windows were broken, so there was wind too.".
As for his partner's rescue, he recalled: "I went up to the sixth floor again, tried to kick the door. They got him out after three hours, three hours he was stuck. He was cool, really fine. When I got back to my partner, the very floor was shaking. Everything was shaking. Our whole hotel just moved. Whole pieces of walls fell. Even the stairwell was half blocked.".
Tadmor shared what the area looks like now, just hours after the earthquake: "A lot of buildings that collapsed, a lot of stones, parts of buildings that fell. Everything here is full of building debris. Some of the roads moved, so there are like waves like this. There are a lot of rescue forces here. Five minutes ago they pulled a woman out of the building that completely collapsed.".
Later, Tadmor admitted that despite the earthquake, he is not returning to Israel, due to the reason for his arrival in the area - work matters. "They will get us out of here, I am waiting for our business partners to take us out of the city. I have no intention of returning to the hotel.
""In Turkey, in Istanbul, there was the earthquake in '99, where they are much more professional. Here there wasn't anything of this magnitude, so they are less organized. There are a lot of police forces here.".
Footage of the immense damage in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş following tonight's earthquake.
— Faytuks News (@Faytuks) February 6, 2023
