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Photos: Magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastates Turkey and Syria

A large group of men and security forces help carry a young boy.
An earthquake victim is carried away after being pulled from the wreckage of a collapsed building in Hama, Syria, as the search for survivors continued on Monday.
(Omar Sanadiki / Associated Press)
By Silvia Rázgová
 and Marc Martin
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More than 20,000 people were killed and tens of thousands injured and left homeless in Turkey and Syria after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit early Monday. The destructive quake, which was followed by more than 100 aftershocks, including one of magnitude 7.5 on Monday, caused profound damage in southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria.

The number of dead and injured is expected to rise even as rescue workers make their final push searching through rubble of collapsed buildings, racing against time and cold. Search teams from nearly 30 countries and aid pledges are pouring in, but rescuers are racing against time to pull survivors from the debris before they succumb to cold weather.

Amid great tragedy, a small miracle appeared — in Jinderis, Syria, residents found a crying newborn still connected by the umbilical cord to her mother, who was dead. The baby was the only surviving member of her family.

A young man in the center cries out while being hugged by another man. Steam is rising from their faces in cold weather
A weeping man is comforted after the dead body of his father was removed from a destroyed building in Elbistan, Turkey, on Thursday.
(Francisco Seco / Associated Press)
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A view of a standing building with a large hole in its corner where a small table with a plant is visible.
A damaged building in Adiyaman, Turkey, on Thursday.
(Emrah Gurel / Associated Press)
In an overhead view, people pass collapsed buildings
People walk amid the debris of collapsed buildings in Jinderis, Syria, on Thursday.
(Ghaith Alsayed / Associated Press)
An arm, dressed in neon orange, stretches from the left to hold a smaller hand, reaching from under a large concrete slab.
Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake’s epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southeast, on Tuesday.
(Adem Altan / AFP via Getty Images)
A man walks among rubble as he searches for people in a destroyed building
A man walks among rubble as he searches for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, on Monday.
(Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)
A man carries a small body wrapped in white fabric
A man carries a small body wrapped in a shroud as mourners bury family members killed in Jinderis, Syria, on Tuesday.
(Ghaith Alsayed / Associated Press)
People warm up by a fire amid the rubble of destroyed buildings
Displaced people warm up by a fire amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Hatay, Turkey, on Wednesday.
(Tom Nicholson / For The Times)
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A rescuer cries out as he helps carry a bod wrapped in blanket, with a human foot sticking out.
A rescuer reacts as he carries a body found in the rubble in Adana, Turkey.
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Seated outside, a woman cries; and a dusty book lays on the ground nearby.
A woman weeps amid devastation in the town of Iskenderun in southern Turkey on Tuesday.
(Hussein Malla / Associated Press)
Smoke billows from the scene of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey.
Smoke billows from the scene of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey.
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A man, wrapped in a pink blanket, is carried by a group of men in brown military camouflage jackets
A man is rescued from under rubble of a collapsed Police Guesthouse building in Hatay, Turkey, on Monday.
(Ercin Erturk / Anadolu Agency)
A group of women navigates damaged roads in Fevzipasa, Turkey.
A group of women navigates damaged roads in Fevzipasa, Turkey.
(Emin Sansar / Anadolu Agency)
In a top-down-view a young man emerges, head and shoulders, from under rubble, being pulled out by a group of men.
Mehmet Emin Ataoglu is rescued from under the rubble of six-story building in Iskenderun district of Hatay, Turkey, on Monday.
(Murat Sengul / Anadolu Agency)
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An aerial view of fire in overturned containers following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Hatay, Turkey.
(Murat Sengul / Anadolu Agency)
A short row of men stands in prayer over a few black plastic body bags. Snowcapped mountains are on the horizon.
Burial services are held for victims as mass graves are dug on the outskirts of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Thursday.
(Tom Nicholson / For The Times)
A crying teen girl is pulled out from under rubble of a collapsed building
Hulya Irem Ister, 17, is rescued by emergency personnel from under rubble of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
(Emin Sansar / Anadolu Agency)
An aerial view of debris of a collapsed buildings near a clean soccer field.
An aerial view of debris of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkye, on Monday.
(Ercin Erturk / Anadolu Agency)
A man walks down a road between damaged buildings and machinery while he carries a young child.
A man walks between damaged buildings while he carries a young child in Besnia, Idlib province, Syria, on Monday.
(Ghaith Alsayed/AP)
People stand atop a pile of collapsed buildings as they search through the rubble.
Civil defense workers and residents on Monday search through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Harem, Syria. Damage was reported across several Turkish provinces, and rescue teams were being sent from around the country.
(Ghaith Alsayed / Associated Press)
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A man watches his rescuers remove debris from the destroyed building where he was trapped in Hatay, Turkey
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Men work lifting a large block of rebar concrete slab as they search for people among the debris of a building
Men work lifting a large block of rebar concrete slab as they search for people among the debris in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.
(Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)
Women cry as they watch while the emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey.
(Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)
An aerial topdown view of a large area flattened with concrete and debris and mana people walking stop of it.
Civil defense workers and residents search through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Harem near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, on Monday.
(Ghaith Alsayed / Associated Press)
At left, on the bed, and in center on the floor, two injured men lay, which a child lays on a hospital bed on the right.
Following the magnitide 7.8 earthquake, two injured men and a child receive treatment at the Bab al-Hawa hospital in the rebel-held northern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province on the border with Turkey, early on Monday.
(Aaref Watad / AFP via Getty Images)
A woman raises her hand to her face, crying, as rescuers search for survivors through the rubble of a building.
A woman reacts as rescuers search for survivors through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Adana, Turkey, on Monday after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the country in the southeast.
(Can Erok / AFP via Getty Images)
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A man in rescue gear carries a dust-covered young girl in his arms
Members of the Syrian White Helmets carry a young girl from a destroyed building in Harem, Syria, following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Syria, Turkey and Lebanon.
(Anas Alkharboutli / picture-alliance/dpa/ Associated Press)
A child carries two bird cages with birds that were rescued alive from rubble of a collapsed building
A child carries cages with birds, which were rescued alive, from rubble of a collapsed building in Afrin district of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday.
(Omer Alven / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Silvia Rázgová

Silvia Rázgová is a former photo editor at the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 2022 after previously working for the newspaper and other publications as a freelance photographer. Born in Slovakia, she immigrated to the United States in 2000 and continued her education, receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After working as a contract photojournalist for the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado, Rázgová became a staff photographer at the National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where she covered daily news, documentary projects, and features for nearly five years. In 2016, she moved to Los Angeles working on commissions as a photojournalist and continued to photograph projects in the UAE and Slovakia. In her personal work she explores the themes of home, loss, belonging and poignancy of life.

Marc Martin

Marc Martin is a deputy photo editor at the Los Angeles Times. He joined The Times in 2000 as a photo assignment editor in Orange County after four years as the director of photography at Times Community News. Martin, a former Times intern, holds a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from Cal State Long Beach.

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