{"id":157721,"date":"2023-02-11T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T04:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-likely-to-more-than-double-un-says"},"modified":"2023-02-11T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T04:07:52","slug":"turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-likely-to-more-than-double-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-likely-to-more-than-double-un-says","title":{"rendered":"Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll likely to \u2018more than double\u2019, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll-likely-to-more-than-double-un-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria is likely to \u201cmore than double\u201d, according to a United Nations emergency relief coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Griffiths, speaking to Sky News on Saturday, said he expected tens of thousands more deaths.<\/p>\n<p>At least 24,596 people have been confirmed dead after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and north-western Syria on Monday, with multiple aftershocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria is likely to \u201cmore than double\u201d, according to a United Nations emergency relief coordinator. Martin Griffiths, speaking to Sky News on Saturday, said he expected tens of thousands more deaths. At least 24,596 people have been confirmed dead after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}