AFAD, Turkey’s disaster management agency, said that 9,470 aftershocks had hit the region affected by the quake.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9511490/turkey-earthquake-investigation-collapsed-buildings/

A larger quake was felt on Sunday 28 May, just before midnight by over 20,000 people in outer East Melbourne.

Source: https://rangestrader.mailcommunity.com.au/news/2023-05-29/third-shake-felt-in-melbournes-outer-east/

All of the casualties reported so far were from the Afghanistan quake.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/least-15-dead-three-earthquakes-31129098

Almost as soon as the main quake hit, thousands of eyewitnesses posted videos and photos on social media, particularly on Twitter.

Source: https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2023/02/twitter-cutoff-turkey-amid-earthquake-rescue-operations-social-media-expert-explains-danger-losing-microblogging-service-times-disaster/382862/

Also Friday, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said it was declaring a cease-fire in its separatist insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, including some areas affected by the quake.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/02/10/rescues-in-turkey-offer-moments-of-relief-in-quake-aftermath/

A quake of magnitude 4.3 also hit Tajikistan on Tuesday, according to the NCS.

Source: https://pragativadi.com/4-1-earthquake-jolts-afghanistan-4-3-quake-hits-neighbouring-tajikistan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4-1-earthquake-jolts-afghanistan-4-3-quake-hits-neighbouring-tajikistan

As the quake hit mountainous areas, access to victims is believed to be difficult.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountains-kills-levels-buildings

A student at Lanzhou University said when the quake struck, she first went to hide in the bathroom with her roommates, before running down 12 floors amid violent shakes.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/12/19/at-least-8-dead-after-5-9-magnitude-earthquake-in-northwest-china/

At least 16,000 people have been reported injured so far in the quake.

Source: https://themedialine.org/headlines/death-toll-rises-to-5000-in-turkey-syria-earthquake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-toll-rises-to-5000-in-turkey-syria-earthquake

At least 23 were injured as a result of the quake, which was centred in the town of Yesilyurt in Malatya province and felt in Adiyaman, both provinces hit by the devastating earthquakes in February, which killed at least 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria.

Source: https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/5-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-southern-turkey/

At one stage, they met a woman who was in hysterics because she lived a few kilometers away in a house that was badly impacted by the quake - where people had died.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12506359/Morocco-earthquake-Australian-tourist.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

At the Sheraton hotel in the city of Adana, where a number of buildings had collapsed in the initial quake, families crammed into elevators with their luggage to evacuate the building.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/world/middleeast/earthquake-turkey.html

Barden wrote about his cycling journey, the last entry is from September 7, the night before the quake.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/20/hamza-the-moroccan-hotelier-who-helped-a-british-woman-find-her-dads-body?traffic_source=rss

But a minor surge in his popularity spurred by several spending programmes launched before the quake appears to have fallen away.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-earthquake-erdorgan-elections-housing-b2292016.html

By Sunday evening, the quake had caused 23 injuries in Pingyuan County, Dezhou City, of which 10 people were hospitalised for minor injuries, and 13 people were "slightly injured", the city's official WeChat account said, citing Earthquake Field Command.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/23-injured-buildings-collapse-54-magnitude-quake-hits-east-china-3681341?cid=cna_flip_070214

“Chambri lake is boiling and the continuous quake is still happening right now,” a member of parliament in the area, Johnson Wapunai, said in a message on social media several hours after the quake struck.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1751841/three-dead-as-powerful-earthquake-strikes-papua-new-guinea

“Chambri lake is boiling and the continuous quake is still happening right now,” a member of parliament in the area, Johnson Wapunai, said in a message on social media several hours after the quake struck.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1751841/three-dead-as-powerful-earthquake-strikes-papua-new-guinea

Civil society groups have issued some 17,000 bus tickets to displaced quake victims who want to return to their electoral districts, Sun told Al-Monitor.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/05/turkey-elections-campaign-approaches-climax-gunshots-fears-fraud

Copywriters quake as Grammarly slowly replaces every facet of their job.

Source: https://www.bandt.com.au/apple-s-larry-jackson-launches-revolutionary-music-startup-gamma/

Even before the quake, over 7 million women and girls across Syria needed critical health services and support against physical and sexual violence.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5449200/for-syrian-women-quake-adds-disaster-on-top-of-wars-pain-2/