After more than 7,200 deaths

After more than 7,200 deaths and massive devastation from the two earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and Syria, a race against time is underway to rescue as many people as possible from the rubble.

The earthquake that shook the region on Monday had a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale and has been considered by experts as the strongest to have occurred there since 1939. It was followed by snaptik another 7.5.

This has been reflected in thousands of deaths and injuries and in hundreds of collapsed buildings where it is feared that hundreds of people are trapped.