THE terror struck in the freezing darkness of pre-dawn, ripping the earth apart, crushing families as they slept, reducing neighbourhoods to rubble and sending people screaming into a whole new hell. The first earthquake to hit the Turkey-Syria border region struck shortly after 4am, affecting dozens of towns and cities already devastated by war, crippled by a refugee crisis and reeling under economic hardship.
It measured 7.8 on the open-ended Richter scale
