Over 6,000 Dead In Turkey, Syria Quake: "We Thought It Was The Apocalypse"

The 7.8-magnitude quake struck Monday as people slept, flattening thousands of structures, trapping an unknown number of people and potentially impacting millions. - 23 million could be affected -The latest toll showed 4,544 people killed in Turkey and 1,712 in Syria, for a combined total of 6,256 fatalities. Washington and the European Commission said on Monday that humanitarian programmes supported by them were responding to the destruction in Syria. The UN's cultural agency UNESCO also said it was ready to provide assistance after two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage. Experts have long warned a large quake could devastate Istanbul, a megalopolis of 16 million people filled with rickety homes.