The department announced this on its Telegram channel.

It is noted that employees of the department are examining and dismantling the rubble of destroyed buildings in the emergency zone.

“Russian rescuers are working with maximum efficiency ... Every minute is precious to save the lives of the victims,” the department noted.

In total, more than 100 employees of the department arrived in Turkey to help in the aftermath of the earthquake.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry also sent cynological teams and a mobile hospital to Turkey.

Earlier it was reported that the rescuers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry who arrived in Syria went to the work area.

Head of the Laboratory of Seismic Hazard of the Institute of Physics of the Earth named after V.I.

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Schmidt of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexei Zavyalov, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, said that such a powerful earthquake that occurred on February 6 in southeastern Turkey had not happened for almost a century and a half.