{"id":106430,"date":"2023-02-22T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=106430"},"modified":"2023-02-22T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:46:10","slug":"caught-in-the-second-earthquake-21st-february-adyiman-east-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=106430","title":{"rendered":"Caught in the Second Earthquake 21st February Adyiman, East Turkey."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6ebqtS2.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n<img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LtmvEaD.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Latest update from Earthquake zone:<\/p>\n<p>Parasuram das<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday 21st February at 8pm an earthquake struck again. 6.4 magnitude.<br \/>\nThe Earth rose up and down about one foot, buildings started to fall,<br \/>\nterrible noise. It was over very quickly. I doubt if there were many<br \/>\ncasualties as most of the buildings around us are deserted or destroyed<br \/>\nalready.<br \/>\nWe were safe in the sports stadium which we share with 700 police and army<br \/>\npersonnel.<br \/>\nWe were given as much food as we needed by the government. So we are cooking<br \/>\ndaily for the rescue workers, police and army plus 1,200 refugees who are<br \/>\nliving in tents. Also making up food parcels and bottles of drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Busy time, nobody speaks English except ourselves but language is not<br \/>\nnecessary when giving out essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Very quickly we developed a strong bond with the police. They were away<br \/>\nfrom home in a dangerous place and so were we. They saw us raising early<br \/>\nand working hard and a true friendship arose. Religious differences had no<br \/>\nmeaning we were a team on a mission. They just loved the Prasad and we made<br \/>\nsure to throw a feast at every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to a local police officer today using google translator, his<br \/>\nfamily survived but his brother&#8217;s family are still under the rubble.<br \/>\n10,000 died in the city of Adyiman, the clock tower is permanently fixed on<br \/>\n4.17am, the time the first Earthquake struck. This is where the football<br \/>\nstadium became the rescue hub.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor and government officials are eager to continue our working<br \/>\nrelationship. Friendships formed in the field of sacrifice are unbreakable<\/p>\n<p>Nice video below with wonderful Kishori :<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/fb.watch\/iQv3FFWL1B\/<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE &#039;Food for All&#039; Prasad distribution in Turkiye by Parashuram Das and team!\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KTfjNAIYWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6ebqtS2.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/>Latest update from Earthquake zone: Parasuram das Last Monday 21st February at 8pm an earthquake struck again. 6.4 magnitude. The Earth rose up and down about one foot, buildings started to fall, terrible noise. It was over very quickly. I doubt if there were many casualties as most of the buildings around us are deserted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106431,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106430\/revisions\/106431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}