2023 Turkey–Syria Earthquake

A doublet earthquake disaster struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria in the early morning hours, with a magnitude 7.8 mainshock followed nine hours later by a magnitude 7.7 event on a nearby fault. Over 164,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed or were severely damaged across 11 Turkish provinces. The earthquake was the deadliest in Turkey's modern history and the deadliest worldwide since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, with recovery hampered in Syria by the ongoing civil war.