2023 तुर्की-सीरिया भूकंप
6 फ़रवरी 2023 को सीरिया और तुर्की की सीमा पर 7.8 की तीव्रता के भूकम्प के झटके अनुभव किए गए। इसका केन्द्र अपेक्षाकृत उथला, निकटतम 18 किलोमीटर नीचे था, जिसके कारण से भूमि पर खड़ी इमारतों को गम्भीर क्षति पहुंचा। इस क्षेत्र में अरेबियन प्लेट उत्तर की ओर खिसक रही है और एनातोलियन प्लेट से इसका घर्षण हो रहा है। इससे पहले 13 अगस्त 1822 को 7.4 तीव्रता का भूकम्प आया था। On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a ṃ 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was 37 कि॰मी॰ (121,000 फीट) west–northwest of Gaziantep. The earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme) around the epicenter and in Antakya. It was followed by a ṃ7.7 earthquake at 13:24. This earthquake was centered 95 कि॰मी॰ (312,000 फीट) north-northeast from the first. There was widespread damage and tens of thousands of fatalities. The ṃ7.8 earthquake is the largest in Turkey since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake of the same magnitude, and jointly the second-strongest recorded in the history of the country, after the 1668 North Anatolia earthquake. It is also one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the Levant. It was felt as far as Egypt and the Black Sea coast of Turkey. There were more than 30,000 aftershocks in the three months that followed. The seismic sequence was the result of shallow strike-slip faulting. There was widespread damage in an area of about 350,000 कि॰मी2 (3.8×1012 वर्ग फुट), about the size of Germany. An estimated 14 million people, or 16 percent of Turkey's population, were affected. Development experts from the United Nations estimated that about 1.5 million people were left homeless. The confirmed death toll stood at 59,259: 50,783 in Turkey and 8,476 in Syria. It is the deadliest earthquake in what is now present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and the deadliest natural disaster in its modern history. It is also the deadliest in present-day Syria since the 1822 Aleppo earthquake; the deadliest worldwide since the 2010 Haiti earthquake; and the fifth-deadliest of the 21st century.सन्दर्भ त्रुटि: <ref> टैग के लिए समाप्ति </ref> टैग नहीं मिला अफगानिस्तान के विदेश मंत्रालय ने कहा कि सरकार साझा मानवता और इस्लामी भाईचारे के आधार पर तुर्की और सीरिया को क्रमशः 10 मिलियन अफगानी ($111,024) और 5 मिलियन अफगानी ($55,512) का राहत पैकेज भेजेगी। बांग्लादेश ने बचाव उपकरण, दवा, टेंट और भोजन के साथ तुर्की में 46-सदस्यीय चिकित्सा और बचाव दल भेजा।