the fierce earthquake of magnitude 7.8, with its epicenter in the southeast of Turkey close to border with Syriawhich to date has caused more than 5,100 deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries, experienced a moment of hope when a child was born in the rubble.

The mother had been buried under the remains of a building in Syria that had been demolished in the earthquake when she was ready to give birth. And the miracle happened when she ended up giving birth to a boy who came out unharmed of this natural disaster.

They rescue an uninjured child but the mother didn’t survive

The good news in the midst of the disaster could not be complete, since the The child’s mother could not survive.

In a video posted on social media by the user ayhamalghzalyyou can see how a man lifts the newborn out of the rubble and carries him away from the collapsed buildings, lays out the medium Wave Zero.

“Hope is born from the womb of suffering”, she points to the man next to a photo of the baby.

Two brothers under the rubble

As the baby is born, many heartwarming stories begin to emerge.

For example, another one that a user also shared through his Twitter account.

In it he tells what he experienced two little brothers who were trapped under the rubble of a building in Syria.

In the moving images we see how the older of the two, about 10 years old, decides protecting his little brother’s head with his arm.

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Because the earthquake in Turkey and Syria was devastating

The huge amount of dead and wounded, and serious damage who caused the earthquake that devastated several cities in Turkey and Syria this Monday, February 6, is beginning to find the reasons for it.

THE location of the epicenter of the earthquake, of 7.8 degrees, the time it happeneddistant antecedents e the few stringent safety measures during construction They help explain that deadly balance.

HIGH POPULATION

This is the strongest earthquake recorded in Turkey since 1939, and has affected a densely populated region.

Roger Musson, a researcher at the British Geological Survey, explained to the AFP agency that having happened at dawn, at 4:17 local time, “it surprised the dormant population and the the vast majority of victims “were trapped when their houses collapsed”.

In turn, the construction methods “were not quite adequate for an area prone to large earthquakes,” added the specialist.

He also noted that the fault line where the seismic movement occurred had been relatively calm of late.

REPLICAS

The region experienced another 7.5-magnitude quake 7.5 hours later, which would confirm that a lot of energy had built up that needed to be released.

On the other hand, the epicenter of the earthquake this Monday was relatively shallow, just 17.9 kilometersand was located in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, where about two million people live.

LARGE EXTENSION

Musson says the epicenter isn’t as important in this case as the extension of the telluric movementover 100 kilometers, something rare.

“This means that within that 100km margin along the fault, everything” is affected by the aftershock,” he told AFP.