Eyewitness accounts, videos and photos from quake zone

The sheer standard of the devastation of the earthquake and its aftershocks tin beryllium seen successful societal media photos and videos posted by radical successful Turkey and Syria. Eyewitnesses person besides been speaking astir what happened. BBC News has been pulling unneurotic and verifying information.

The tremors of the main quake - which happened astatine 04:17 section clip - were felt much than a 100 miles successful each absorption from the epicentre - crossed confederate Turkey and successful bluish Syria.

Witnesses described being shaken from their slumber and moving to their cars for information from the damaged buildings.

"I person ne'er felt thing similar it successful the 40 years I've lived," said Erdem, surviving successful the metropolis of Gaziantep. "We were shaken astatine slightest 3 times precise strongly, similar a babe successful a crib."

BBC News has been piecing unneurotic what happened arsenic the tremors struck and reverberated crossed Turkey and Syria - utilizing idiosyncratic grounds and societal media posts which we person verified.

In 1 verified tweet a camera pans crossed smoke-filled scenes of rubble and demolition successful Iskenderun, confederate Turkey.

BBC Turkish spoke to earthquake survivors from antithetic cities - each of them said it was the archetypal clip they had experienced specified terrible and long-lasting tremors.

Hundreds of buildings are reported to person been destroyed successful the Pazarcık territory of Kahramanmaraş, to the northbound of the epicentre.

Footage connected Twitter shows an aerial presumption of the unit of the quake successful the city's thenar tree-lined streets.

One section nonmigratory Veysel Şervan told the BBC that galore of his relatives were nether the rubble.

"I hardly got myself and my household retired of the building. We were conscionable coming retired of the wreckage erstwhile we saw a idiosyncratic scope retired done a tiny gap. The gathering collapsed connected our person who tried to prevention them. They person nary accidental of escape, it collapsed connected them completely. We are successful a precise hard situation."

Videos person emerged showing ample fires successful confederate Turkey, with radical claiming the earthquake has caused state pipelines to burst and pain retired of control.

The BBC has verified 1 of the videos arsenic being connected the outskirts of the metropolis of Hatay, astir 170km from the earthquake epicentre.

A inactive from drone footage taken implicit Hatay shows galore flat buildings collapsed successful 1 neighbourhood.

The tremors caused this infirmary successful the metropolis to illness astatine an angle.

Gaziantep nonmigratory Russell Peagram, from Essex, described efforts to assistance aged neighbours flight from flat buildings successful freezing temperatures.

"Neighbours got together, it was teamwork. If determination was an aged woman oregon an aged antheral who'd travel down and you had abstraction successful your car, everyone was conscionable getting blankets and sharing them, immoderate they could do."

The earthquake reduced the city's castle and the Shirvan Mosque to rubble. Gaziantep castle had been 1 of the country's best-preserved castles dating backmost to the Roman period.

Aftershocks to the eastbound and southbound of the archetypal epicentre - including a important 2nd quake - person been felt since.

This is the infinitesimal Turkish TV captured the infinitesimal the 2nd earthquake struck successful the metropolis of Malatya.

At the aforesaid time, successful Sanliurfa, an eyewitness captured the infinitesimal a gathering collapsed successful the Bahçelievler neighbourhood.

BBC journalists were capable to corroborate the determination was successful Sanilurfa - alternatively than, according to an earlier societal media claim, Aleppo successful Syria.

We utilized geolocation tools and checked idiosyncratic thumbnails from the video to spot erstwhile it was archetypal posted.

Across the borderline successful bluish Syria, the concern is conscionable arsenic desperate.

One nonmigratory successful Azaz, a metropolis successful north-west Syria, told the media however frightening the concern had been.

"There are 12 families [trapped here] and no-one managed to get out."

In the metropolis of Aleppo, a pistillate holding a tiny child, ran arsenic buildings fell successful speedy succession.

While successful the colony of Besnaya-Bseineh, adjacent Harim, an excavator moved rubble and rescuers searched by manus for survivors.

Before and aft images amusement however homes person been destroyed.