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++ Turkey–Syria earthquakes of 2023 were back-to-back earthquakes of magnitudes 7.8 and 7.7 that occurred in south Turkey at 4:17 am and 1:24 pm local time on February 6, 2023. Causing widespread damage in a large area around 12 times the size of Belgium, the earthquakes impacted an estimated 14 million people, or 16% of Turkey's population. Of these, over 50,000 died and two million were left homeless.