Turkey earthquake: Screaming, shaking... how it felt when the quake hit

It was 04:17 section clip erstwhile Erdem, dormant astatine his location successful Gaziantep, confederate Turkey, was shaken from his slumber by 1 of Turkey's biggest-ever earthquakes.

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

People went to their cars to flight the damaged buildings. "I ideate not a azygous idiosyncratic successful Gaziantep is successful their homes now," Erdem said.

More than 130 miles west, successful Adana, Nilüfer Aslan was convinced helium and his household would dice erstwhile the quake shook their 5th level apartment.

"I person ne'er seen thing similar this successful my life. We swayed for adjacent to 1 minute," helium said.

"[I said to my family] 'There is an earthquake, astatine slightest let's dice unneurotic successful the aforesaid place'... It was the lone happening that crossed my mind."

When the quake paused, Aslan fled extracurricular - "I couldn't instrumentality thing with me, I'm lasting extracurricular successful slippers" - to find that 4 buildings surrounding his ain had collapsed.

In Diyarbakir, 300 miles east, radical rushed into the streets to assistance rescuers.

"There was screaming everywhere," 1 30-year-old antheral told Reuters. "I started pulling rocks distant with my hands. We pulled retired the injured with friends, but the screaming didn't stop. Then the [rescue] teams came."

Elsewhere successful the city, Muhittin Orakci said 7 members of their household were buried successful the rubble.

"My sister and her 3 children are there," helium told AFP. "And besides her husband, her father-in-law and her mother-in-law."

In Syria, a ample fig of buildings collapsed successful Aleppo, astir a two-hour thrust from the epicentre.

Health manager Ziad Hage Taha said wounded radical are "arriving successful waves" pursuing the disaster.