A toddler was pulled out alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Azaz, Syria after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 800 in the country and at least 1,490 more in neighboring Turkey.
— Jordanian seismologists registered more that 110 aftershocks in the country after the two massive earthquakes hit southeast Turkey on Monday. Head of Jordan's seismology center, Ghassan Sweidan, told local television that"the center is still recording more tremors from time to time."
Residents of the capital Amman, some 425 miles away from the epicenter of the quakes, were woken up at 4:17 a.m. local time by the tremors. Local media reported that part of an old building collapsed in the northern Jordanian city of Irbid, but there were no casualties reported. وحدت مشاعر الألم عالمنا اليوم، قلوبنا مع أهالي ضحايا الزلزال وصلواتنا للمصابين ومن فقدوا منازلهم
Today, our world is united in its grief. Our hearts and prayers are with all the victims, the injured, and those who lost their homes or loved ones in today's devastating earthquakes"Our hearts and prayers are with all the victims, the injured, and those who lost their homes or loved ones in today's devastating earthquakes," tweeted Jordan's Queen Rania.
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