Social Media Resources Guide, Part 5 As the rescue operations continue in Turkey and the death toll surpasses 500, a teenage boy used a rock to dig himself out of a collapsed building and was pulled from the rubble 100 hours after the Turkish quake. See dramatic video below, along with additional social media resources […]
Social Media Resources Guide, Part 3 IEM’s continuing social media resources coverage of the Turkey earthquake for October 25th includes new videos of dramatic rescues including a 2 week old baby and a toddler pulled from the rubble. Twitter: #deprem (Turkish word for “earthquake”) Video: “Dramatic Rescue for Baby After Turkish Quake” “Toddler rescued from […]
Social Media Resources Guide, Part 2 IEM has continued to monitor the social media traffic around Sunday’s earthquake in southeastern Turkey. We’ve identified additional relevant first-hand accounts of the disaster. A sweeping social movement is happening right now through Twitter to connect earthquake victims with safe shelter in private homes that were undamaged. Over 17,000 […]
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck at 1:41 p.m. (1041 GMT; 6:41 a.m. EDT), near the city of Van and town of Ercis, Turkey. At least 138 people were killed and 350 injured in Sunday’s quake as buildings pancaked and collapsed into rubble. The area has experienced at least 20 aftershocks that threaten further damage and […]
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