A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Syria and Turkey on Monday morning, with latest intel suggesting at least 1,800 have been killed.

One of the aftershocks measured at a magnitude of 7.5, nearly as strong as the initial earthquake.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southern Turkey early Monday killed more than 1,700 people across the country and in neighboring Syria, officials said, as rescuers searched flattened buildings in frigid weather for survivors. The earthquake — felt as far away as Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Egypt — occurred in Kahramanmaras province, north of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border.

It was followed by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in southeastern Turkey on Monday afternoon, as well as dozens of powerful aftershocks. Most of the damage is in southern Turkey and northern and central Syria.

Rescue efforts are underway, but the death toll is expected to climb. As of time of publishing, 1,014 had been killed and more than 7,000 injured in Turkey, with an additional 751 killed and 2,089 injured in Syria.

Hundreds of people are trapped under rubble and collapsed buildings.

The quake could be the largest recorded in the region, which sits on an earthquake-prone belt known as the Anatolia fault, one seismologist said.

Here is some footage of the quakes and the rescue efforts:

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