Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she be trapped under the rubble again? "That fear is always with you," said ...

When it came to describing the devastation wrought on Antioch by the earthquake of 526, the Byzantine chronicler John Malalas told a tale of fire and brimstone not unlike that of February 2023.

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Once a home to a myriad of civilisations, the southern city of Antakya lies in ruins after last Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake. Fourteen centuries of history were ravaged in less than two minutes in ...

Show more Show less Two years after the earthquake, Antakya has been transformed into a vast building site Sema Genc was trapped under the rubble for 36 hours after her home in Antakya collapsed ...