A search and rescue operation is under way, with specialist teams arriving from around the world.
To shift rubble, rescue teams use heavy machinery - including diggers and hydraulic jacks.
Specialist sound equipment can detect the faintest of noises to within a few metres. Silence on the site is needed while a member of the rescue team bangs three times and hopes to hear a response. Thermal imaging equipment can be used to locate people not directly in a rescuer's line of sight, because their body heat can warm the rubble around them.Using their sense of smell, specially trained dogs can pick up on signs of life where human rescuers cannot.
Bedia Gucum, a restaurant owner in Adana in southern Turkey, told the BBC: "We need strong work gloves to move that rubble by hand. Because once they hear somebody alive in there, all heavy machinery stops and they have to dig in with their hands, and that just is beyond human capabilities.How is the end time of an operation decided?
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