According to the numbers Thursday at noon, over 21,500 people have died and thousands of people have been injured in Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan, as can be seen in Al Jazeera.

The management being carried out by the government in Turkey is causing anger. Residents of the city of Gaziantep have denounced that within 12 hours of the earthquake no rescue group arrived to help it. Erdogan threatens them from television: "When the day comes, we will open the book we are saving to identify those who are trying to generate social chaos and make the necessary decisions. Our prosecutors are willing to move quickly."

The Kurdish agents denounce that the Turkish government is not sending rescue teams and that they have had to organise the self-salbament.

The World Health Organization says the deaths can reach 20,000. “Unfortunately we see the same thing in all earthquakes. The initial number of people killed or injured will increase significantly this week,” explains Catherine Smallwood, WHO European Emergency Manager.

Critical moments of rescue

The focus is now on rescuing the wounded and occupants of buildings. The first few days in disaster situations are critical to saving lives, and the intense cold that it does throughout the earthquake zone only increases this anguish. Critical messages are being disseminated by the public in some areas, considering that the rescue is too slow.

The situation in Kurdistan is also very serious. Berria interview Mithat Sancar, co-chair of the HDP People's Democratic Party. “This is the most serious seismic disaster in the country’s history. The Monday morning earthquake and the second occurring within a few hours have affected a large area, directly affecting at least ten cities, dozens of provinces and hundreds of villages. Destruction is terrible. In addition, the weather is very hard, there is snow in many places and it is very cold. Many were at home when an earthquake occurred, and so there have been so many deaths and injuries. Thousands are killed and the wounded are much more, and unfortunately they will be more as the hours pass.”

High-intensity earthquakes

The first earthquake occurred in Euskal Herria at 02:17 hours on Monday. 7.8 degrees with epicenter in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, seven kilometers deep. He then had several replicas. It has been the hardest shake of the last 25 years, according to the authorities. There has also been a second 7.5-degree earthquake, as reported by the US Geology Service and the Kandilli Observatory and the Institute for Earthquake Research. It took place at 11:24 hours on Monday in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras.

The early morning earthquake has been the hardest of the last 100 years, after what happened in the city of Erzincan in 1939. Then there were over 32,000 deaths.