Focus on Arts and Ecology

February 17, 2023 

As of Thursday, the China Search and Rescue team has rescued six trapped people and found 11 victims in Türkiye. The HK rescue team has rescued four survivors. The Zhejiang Rescue Team of Ramunion rescued nine survivors and the Blue Sky Rescue (BSR) team, working with other rescue groups, rescued eight survivors and found 137 victims.

A total of over 500 people from 19 Chinese emergency response teams were in Türkiye to join the international rescue work. 

Deciphering earthquake aid:

· Researchers from Wuhan University have helped the UN to analyze satellite data to map light levels in Turkish areas affected by last week's earthquakes

· The results helped reveal the extent of damage to infrastructure in Hatay, Kahramanmaras and Adiyaman

· Li Xi, a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University, says the data can help strategize rescue operations and measure disaster resistance capabilities

Latest on the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria: 

· It's been 11 days since the earthquake and the death toll recorded is more than 43,000 in Türkiye and Syria combined

· The number is expected to shoot up as some 264,000 apartments in Türkiye were lost in the quake and many people are still unaccounted for

· Mosques around the world performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead, many of whom could not receive full burial rites given the enormity of the disaster

· Discover the before and after impact in Hatay

· Has the world failed the Syrian people? 

· Many businesses are reeling after being looted and destroyed in the wake of the disaster

· Watch how nurses rushed to protect baby incubators in the neonatal unit in a hospital during the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Gaziantep, Türkiye