Thanks for asking. Yes. They barely noticed it. They live in Western Turkey.
The combined death toll will likely go over 30,000 and there will be at least 150,000 injured. Southeast Turkey is relatively poor and most buildings are cheaply built 4-7 floor brick buildings. In rural, there are still mud brick buildings. Northern Syria is even worse. So even an earthquake of magnitude 5 is problematic there. Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 are horrific for those regions.
I'm going to copy paste what I wrote on an another forum so that people here can get a sense of the tragedy:
I'm from the epicenter of the earthquake and my relatives like many others were asleep when it happened. Thank God that they weren't harmed but my grandma's sister broke her back and her children were injured. I've heard that they were stuck under for a while but thankfully they got rescued later and are currently waiting for a doctor to get operated. There are thousands like them who are either injured or under rubble.
People like me who live abroad are having trouble reaching out to their relatives/loved ones in Turkey.
Hundreds of buildings have collapsed. Hell, even my old apartment which I lived in up until like 3 years ago has collapsed.
The sad part is, most of this destruction and loss of life could've been avoided had the government invested more in appropriate measures.
