The Latest Breaking News from Earthquakes

Holidays in Turkey look to be going ahead this half term following the devastating earthquakes, with easyJet, Jet2, TUI and Turkish Airlines running flights unaffected to holiday resorts

Here’s a roundup of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Britain will continue to work with the United Nations and others to support Turkey and Syria following earthquakes there, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Thursday, describing the situation in Syria as "considerably harder."

Elements of criteria can point towards the possibility of an earthquake but, at best, predictions are good guesses

Twitter was blocked in Turkey on Feb. 8, 2023, according to internet monitoring service NetBlocks. The outage came amid the massive rescue operation and humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of the earthquakes in southern Turkey and northern Syria two days earlier. Access to Twitter appeared to be restored about 12…

These terrifying events raise many questions; here are some answers.

Turkey's decision to block access to Twitter for about 12 hours from Wednesday afternoon to early Thursday as people scrambled to find loved ones after devastating earthquakes has compounded public frustration at the pace of relief efforts.

A combination of factors led to the widespread destruction that has left thousands still trapped under debris.

Award-winning French journalist Samuel Forey joins us for Perspective to discuss his newly-released book, which retraces six years of reporting from the Middle East. He tells us more about why he decided to become a war reporter and also reacts to the devastating twin earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

Ryan Gray, of the K9 Search and Rescue charity, said they have been preparing since hearing news of the earthquakes on Monday.

Two major earthquakes of magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5 jolted southern Turkey and northern Syria