Thousands of lives have been lost, and the death toll is expected to rise. Many more people are in need of urgent medical help. Hundreds of thousands, left without homes, have sought shelter from the freezing cold.
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Turkey and Syria in the wake of Monday’s deadly earthquake and powerful aftershocks. Dozens of countries are sending aid-and-rescue teams to the region.
Here are some pictures and video showing the aftermath of the disaster.
This gallery contains graphic images.
Tuesday
Survivors were left with little refuge amid heavy snow in Malatya.
A man was pulled from the rubble in Malatya, Turkey.
Survivors sheltering in a tent in Hatay, Turkey.
Outside a damaged hospital in Iskenderun, Turkey.
Emergency responders rescued a child buried in the rubble in the village of Qatma, Syria.
Smoke rising from burning containers at the port in Iskenderun, Turkey.
Aid distribution in Iskenderun, Turkey.
A severely damaged mosque in Malatya, Turkey.
The body of a child in the rubble in Jandaris, in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province, Syria.
Survivors in Hatay, Turkey.
Searching for survivors in Adana, Turkey.
Gathering around a bonfire in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
Monday
Rescue teams searched through the night for survivors in Idlib, Syria.
An injured girl was helped from a badly damaged building in Jandaris, a town in Idlib, a rebel-held province in northwestern Syria.
Several buildings were reduced to rubble in Iskenderun, Turkey.
A collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
Looking on as emergency teams searched for survivors and victims in the rubble of a building in Adana, Turkey.
Rescue teams searched for survivors in Sarmada, Syria.
Rescuers carried a girl from a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, Turkey.
Searching for survivors in Adana, Turkey.
An aftershock caused a damaged building to crumble in Jarabulus, Syria.
The earthquake seriously damaged Turkey’s historic Gaziantep Castle.
Body bags in a hospital in Afrin, Syria.
A collapsed house in Jandaris, Syria.
Mourning victims at a hospital in Atareb, in Aleppo Province, Syria.
Rescue workers pulled a boy from the rubble in Dana, in the Syrian province of Idlib.
A man and his injured child awaiting treatment at the Bab al-Hawa Hospital in Idlib Province, Syria.
Searching through the rubble in Aleppo, Syria.
Rescuing an injured man from a collapsed building in the town of Jandaris, Syria.
Bodies outside a morgue in Aleppo, Syria.
Residents gazing at a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.
Damage in Malatya, Turkey.
The Syrian rescue workers known as the White Helmets, who operate in areas outside government control, trying to extract a man from the rubble in Azaz, near the border with Turkey.
The earthquake severely damaged the historic Yeni Mosque in Malatya, Turkey.
A badly damaged building in Diyarbakir, Turkey.
