Disaster risk reduction is a type of humanitarian aid that helps disaster-prone countries minimize or even avoid the costly effects of natural ... academic studies. Earthquake diplomacy also occurred ...

Earthquakes and secondary disasters like landslides and tsunamis can ... the 2011 Japan earthquake, and the 2023 Turkey - Syria earthquake, have highlighted the urgent need for better forecasting ...

And of equal importance, the Syrian government’s recapture of Aleppo, in 2016, marked a turning point in the civil war. This was and is a military earthquake. First, because of the ability of ...

On 6 February 2023, a series of earthquakes killed over 55,000 people in Türkiye (Turkey) and Syria, in the worst earthquakes the ... children affected by years of conflict and the traumatic effects ...

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake on 6 February 2023 also killed more than 50,000 people across Turkey. Yasser Abu Ammar, a member of White Helmets, the Syrian ... exacerbated the effects of the ...

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Syria and southeastern Turkey, followed by thousands of aftershocks ... Businesses were also destroyed, with far-reaching effects for people’s livelihoods.

They have no idea when they will be able to return to their real home, which was damaged in the huge earthquakes on February 6th that struck southern Turkey and Syria. Chart: The Economist The ...

Asbestos, silica, mercury and lead are among thousands of toxins released by the huge earthquakes in February that killed more than 54,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Reuters spoke to a dozen ...

"I'm scared of another earthquake," she says. Syria's children know trauma all too acutely. The country was already suffering badly from the effects of ... In neighbouring Turkey, an ambitious ...

Therefore, unlike in neighboring Turkey, the February 6 earthquake was ... Caesar Act implemented secondary sanctions against anyone conducting business with the Syrian government.