Tents provide shelter for families away from unsafe structures. We're working with a local partner in Turkey to distribute and assemble tents for families. This emergency shelter is meeting an urgent need for those who are suffering and struggling to find a way forward in the disaster's aftermath.

Today, international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse accepted its first patients at the Emergency Field Hospital in Antakya, Turkey.

Samaritan's Purse opened a 52-bed Emergency Field Hospital to meet urgent healthcare needs. Every day, doctors and nurses treat more than 100 patients - many who were injured in the earthquakes.

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The deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria killed tens of thousands of people in February. Samaritan's Purse opened a 52-bed Emergency Field Hospital to meet urgent healthcare needs. Every day, doctors and nurses treat more than 100 patients - many who were injured in the earthquakes.

6, Samaritan's Purse has deployed a 52-bed Emergency Field Hospital near Antakya in southern Turkey. Historically known as Antioch, this is the area where believers were first called Christians (see Acts 11:26). Among other services, the hospital will include two emergency operating rooms and a pharmacy.

This was a "strike-slip" earthquake This earthquake occurred because "two pieces of the Earth are sliding horizontally past each other," Steckler says. It's the same kind of quake that occurs along the San Andreas fault in California. In this case, the Arabian Plate is sliding past the Anatolian Plate.

Israel. Israel deployed more than 430 search and rescue, disaster relief and humanitarian aid workers and sent more than 15 cargo planes with hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid and set up a field hospital, as of 8 February, mainly to the areas of Adana and Gaziantep in Turkey.

The earthquakes claimed the lives of more than 46,000 people and collapsed hundreds of thousands of buildings throughout the region, leaving at least 2 million survivors without a home and in need of humanitarian aid.

Turkey and Syria lie at the confluence of three plates - the Arabian Plate, the Anatolian Plate and the Eurasian Plate, making the region an extremely seismically active zone. The Arabian Plate is inching north into Europe, causing the Anatolian Plate (which Turkey sits on) to be pushed out west.

On February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeast Turkey near the Syrian border, with aftershocks numbering in the thousands. In Syria, the earthquake exacerbated the effects of the ongoing war, deepening the crisis for approximately 3.7 million children.

The earthquakes and underlying vulnerabilities resulted in the deaths of at least 56,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Local actors report that authorities stopped counting and this figure is most likely much higher. Aid workers are among those killed.