China on Tuesday announced its first batch of 40 million yuan ($5.9 million) of emergency assistance to Turkey, and that it would dispatch rescue teams to help save lives and provide assistance to Syria.
anatolian plate. it s to the west. it s moving around two cm everywhere. where the plates grind past each other more fault lines are created, leading to the earthquake that we saw on monday. now let s look at the countries around the world which have mobilized rapidly to send aid. they include major economies such as the us and china but also some almost 40000 people have alreadyjoined the rescue effort in turkey, with personnel arriving from sixty five countries. these are images of a 78 strong rescue team preparing to leave from california, bound for turkey. the group consists of rescue specialists, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, structural engineers and rescue dogs. here s the los angeles county fire chief, anthony marrone:
that s because it sits on the fault line, where three tectonic plates come together. the arabian plate is constantly pushing into the eurasian plate, which squeezes this one, the anatolian plate, to the west. where the plates grind past each other, more fault lines are created, leading to the earthquake we saw yesterday. that initial earthquakes triggered dozens more along the faultline you can see them all marked here. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has been to one of the towns caught in one of those aftershocks. his report contains some distressing scenes. with pickaxe and hammer, determination and hope, they dig for lost relatives in antakya. this backbreaking work. these men. their city and country are overwhelmed, and the lives of those trapped in here depend on them. sixth floor, apartment block. families on every floor. ten minutes ago, theyjust heard a voice, so they are digging to try and get to whoever it is buried deep inside all of this. they can see a man and a ch
are still on top of these piles of rubble, but there is just too are still on top of these piles of rubble, but there isjust too much, there are too many collapsed buildings. there is too much for them to try and deal with with the resources that they have at the moment. this is wiped out the city, and really i can t imagine how long it will take to actually see the full extent of what has happened here. ., , full extent of what has happened here. . , ~ ., here. that is anna foster reporting from turkey- this is the most powerful earthquake to hit turkey in almost a century. the epicentre was here in the south close to the city of gaziantep near the border with syria, one of the world s most seismically active regions. that s because turkey sits on the fault line, where three tectonic plates all come together. the arabian plate is constantly pushing into the eurasian plate, which squeezes this one, the anatolian plate, to the west. it s moving at about 2cm every year. where the plate