The INEM has been placed on alert and is available to participate in rescue operations in the territories affected by the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria in conjunction with Civil Protection, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
“The activation of the emergency teams will always be articulated between the European institutions and the authorities of the affected territories,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Health Minister Manuel Pizarro expressed his “total solidarity” in the statement and deeply regretted the victims of the earthquake.
The Ministry of Health also stresses that it is monitoring the response to the disaster caused by the earthquake.
An earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, struck the border area between Turkey and Syria today.
Meanwhile, a new earthquake measuring over 7 on the Richter scale struck southeastern Turkey today, after an early-morning quake killed at least 1,300 people in Turkey and Syria.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake was recorded at 1:24 p.m. local time (10:24 a.m. in Lisbon), with an epicenter four kilometers from the Turkish city of Ekinozu, and an intensity of 7.5 degrees on the scale from Richter.
Turkey’s emergency and disaster management authority said the latest quake had an intensity of 7.6 and was centered in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province.
The early morning quake, which claimed more than 1,300 lives in Turkey and Syria, had an intensity of 7.7, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Dozens of aftershocks followed, affecting search and rescue efforts in the ten affected provinces.
Source: TSF
