conflict zone. there s been war here for more than 11 years. the northwest is under arm ld possession groups but the conflict line goes in the middle of the earthquake area. large parts of the earthquake zone is under government control in syria. my organization is on both sides, among the few that can work from both sides. and we re now scaling up on all sides of the conflict lines, with what we can purchase locally, which is not much. but it s some. with what we can get across the border from all of the neighboring countries to syria. but we re also trying to go cross-line. conflict line at various points. exactly. last hour, i was talking to a person that was saying his organization, like yours, there are no borders.
declared international assistance, but as a turkish ngo, we have the same the same announcement, because really, we don t have the capacity to rescue those people. of course, the rescue teams must run as it is today, if those people under the rubble stay more than one day, more than four days, the most, three days, you know, it s not severe to rescue them after. this is one of the main priorities. i m sure the united states and other government are ready to help and even teams from germany and netherlands, as you said, they re arrived. even the parts that are not affected by this earthquake area, they move their rescue teams to the field. and as i said, the first priorities is to rescue those people. also, the second is to endure
information out of tonga, including videos of that volcanic eruption. immediately after six people in fiji were reporting hearing a loud thud, thunderous noise from the sky, assuming we had not received confirmation, but assuming it was coming from tonga, from the earthquake area. coming from tonga, from the earthquake area. coming from tonga, from the earthuuake area. : :, ,., :, ., earthquake area. and how soon after ou heard earthquake area. and how soon after you heard the earthquake area. and how soon after you heard the sonic earthquake area. and how soon after you heard the sonic boom earthquake area. and how soon after you heard the sonic boom did - earthquake area. and how soon after you heard the sonic boom did the - you heard the sonic boom did the waves arrive in fiji? waves arrive in fi i? immediately after, waves arrive in fi i? immediately after. about waves arrive in fi i? immediately after, about an waves arrive in fiji? immediately after, about an hour wa
to make the challenge of the international community supporting the government of nepal much greater than in other situations. when you mentioned the footprint of the earthquake is 40% of the country. that s very vast. what is the kind of equipment and what are the tools that your teams ordinarily would have and how are they going to get their tools and equipment in given the restrictions of the passes to this earthquake area? the assessment of what s needed. army helicopters were sentd up to get a look to see how many people we can estimate would need assistance. and then we are looking for medical, looking for shelter, looking for heavy lifting equipment. both search and rescue and also to clear the roads, to make sure that we can have easy access do the affected areas. and that s the situation we have right now.
website. after an hour it goes to orange. and they ve been one after another. almost every hour getting that feeling of yet another tremor out there. although most of them have been in the four, five, six range, there s still the possibility that we could have stronger ones. since we had it well over 300 now. you can see how they ve been clustered in the five to six. only one shortly after the major earthquake was over seven. we could still have another. here s the larger picture, and you can see as we zoom in that most of them have been clustered around that initial earthquake area. and we continue to see them. so well over 300 and more on the way hour after hour. we also have bad weather coming in. this is terrible news. we have had sunny and warm weather for the rescue efforts, but now that s about to change. and what s coming in with the clouds is a drop in