Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Adana, southern Turkey

We've made it to Adana in southern Turkey, where many are now continuing onward journeys to search for loved ones.

Erkan has travelled from Qatar, where he works, to get to his home in Hatay near the Syrian border.

He said he feels lucky that his wife and two children were not injured in the earthquake, but their home has been badly damaged.

"My home is broken. We have nowhere to live. My family will live outside now," he tells me.

He has been unable to connect with friends and family members on the phone, but has been following updates on social media.

"That's how we know who's dead, who's injured," he says.

He now plans to join the search to find those missing in his community.

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Ships bound for the earthquake disaster zone in Turkey are being diverted because of severe fire damage to a port.

The Iskenderun facility, which lies about 70 miles (112km) south-west of Gaziantep, has been burning since yesterday.

Pictures from the scene show a dense column of smoke rising above the port and fire engulfing several containers.

Earlier today, the BBC's Quentin Sommerville said the air around the port was "still thick with black smoke and the smell of burning petrol".

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He continued: "It’s been burning since yesterday when the earthquake hit, toppling shipping containers and setting the port on fire."

Major shipping firm AP Moller Maersk said in a statement it wasn't clear when it would return to normal operations and that cargo is being diverted to other ports in Turkey, as well as Port Said in Egypt.

With roads and airports damaged, the damage will add to the complex logistical problems government and aid agencies face in trying to get aid and supplies to the area.

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Footage has emerged from Syria of search teams discovering two children among the ruins, in separate rescues in Aleppo and Idlib.

Emergency teams are racing to save people trapped beneath the rubble after thousands of buildings collapsed in both Turkey and Syria.

Tom Bateman
Reporting from Adana

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The sense of loss is spreading more quickly than the search for survivors.

On the Turkish border with Syria, more news came in overnight from Hatay province, one of the worst hit regions.

In the darkness, footage showed a resident searching in the rubble. He believes someone is alive underneath. "Speak out loud," he pleads.

"As you see, there is a dead body here. He is dead and nobody has removed him. And a woman's voice is heard from underneath."

As he speaks a woman's voice cries out from the rubble. She cries again, and then bangs on metal trying to hold the man's attention. But there is nothing he alone can do. An entire home is collapsed and it will take machinery to lift the ruins.

This is a story of unanswered cries, being repeated over and over again across this region.

Read more from Adana here.

As we reported earlier, the weather is due to have an impact on those left without shelter, with overnight temperatures set to dip below freezing.

BBC Weather presenter Nick Miller has the latest forecast for the area.

If you're just joining us, or need a catch up, here's the latest from Turkey and Syria:

More than 5,000 people... have died across both countries following yesterday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent 7.5 tremor, which both hit south-eastern Turkey near its border with neighbouring Syria

The combined death toll... is expected to keep rising as the now-international search and rescue mission continues

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... has declared 10 cities in the south of his country as disaster zones and said there'll be a three-month state of emergency in each due to the damage caused.

He also thanked the 70 countries who've sent and offered help, including the US, UK and South Korea

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Voices from the rubble... are being amplified by journalists and concerned loved ones, including one Istanbul-based reporter who told us he was receiving voice notes from people trapped under collapsed buildings

Millions will be affected... by the quakes, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), who earlier warned as many as 23 million Turkish and Syrian people will suffer some form of consequences. This includes over a million children, officials said

Despite freezing weather... rescue teams are continuing to search for survivors

Stay with us for the latest updates and analysis from our correspondents on the ground.

Jessica Parker
Reporting from Brussels

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The EU says it’s now mobilised more than 30 search and rescue or medical teams to send to Turkey.

They’re being provided by 19 member states - plus Montenegro and Albania.

In total that will mean more than 1,200+ rescue workers heading to the affected areas and 70 detection dogs.

A spokesman said that 11 teams were already on the ground while others were “gradually arriving.”

Syria presents a more complicated situation – with control in the north divided between the government and rebel groups.

Brussels also does not recognise Bashar al-Assad as a legitimate head of state and has imposed sanctions on the regime – with only low-level contacts between Damascus and Brussels.

And, unlike Turkey, Syria has not asked for help under the EU’s civil protection mechanism.

“To make sure that teams are able to work effectively on the ground, it’s absolutely indispensable that we not only have authorisation but the support of authorities there on the ground,” said the European Commission’s chief spokesman Eric Mamer.

“If that isn’t the case it’s impossible for teams to work in an effective and safe way.”

The EU says it’s providing aid to Syria through existing humanitarian and NGO networks – including the supply of water, sanitation, blankets and shelter.

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Turkey's president has declared a three month state of emergency in the south-east of the country after the official death toll climbed again.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the number of confirmed fatalities in Turkey alone has risen to 3,549, up by 130.

He said there are 10 cities within the earthquake disaster zone and confirmed his government has received offers of help from 70 countries around the world.

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President Erdogan also announced plans to utilise hotels in Antalya as emergency shelters for people left homeless by the earthquake.

The resort on Turkey's south-west coast is a popular tourist destination for holidaymakers from across Europe.

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Selin Girit
BBC Turkish

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Since 04:17am yesterday, people across Turkey have barely slept.

Over 13 million people across 10 cities have been affected by the biggest quake the country has witnessed since 1939.

The scale of the disaster is beyond the nation’s worst nightmare. People have been glued to their television screens and their mobile phones, trying to get a hold of the latest news and to figure out how they can offer some sort of help.

When I told my mother I was going to be deployed to Maras, the epicentre of both the earthquakes, she called me back a second later, asking me in tears to make some donation on her behalf.

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Pictures emerging from airports in Istanbul show the desperation. Hundreds gathered to make their way to the quake zone as volunteers.

Others are trying to organise help on social media, keen to determine what people in the region urgently need.

There is also frustration. Why hasn’t the government listened to the warnings of the geology experts? Knowing a major quake would hit the country sooner or later, why haven’t they taken enough precautions to strengthen the buildings - and why have they been slow in allowing the miners or the troops to take part in the rescue operations, many ask.

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Let's hear now from Timothy Whiting, a 29-year-old from Yorkshire in the UK, who was on holiday in Turkey when the earthquake struck.

He says he woke to the guest house he was staying in shaking and was "very scared", but he managed to escape.

"I was on the second floor of a two-storey building, I think that was the lucky thing – there were no floors above us to fall," he tells the BBC, recalling how all the other buildings around him had collapsed or been damaged "like a nuclear bomb had gone off".

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"Whole swathes of the city were flattened," he says. "There were huge five to six storey buildings completely on their side."

Timothy was staying in the city of Hatay in Antakya, which he left by foot until a car offered him a lift to Adana, where he is now.

"People were coming out of everywhere, half of them barefoot. It was just complete chaos," he says.

Everyone could hear voices from under the rubble, he recalls, adding it became clear that "we [sic] were unlikely to be able to pull anyone out".

Anna Foster
Reporting from Gaziantep province, southern Turkey

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Getting to areas close to the epicentre is incredibly difficult. There are concerns the main highway is not safe so everything has been moved onto a winding mountain road.

They have been desperately trying to get ambulances and rescue teams through but the route is clogged with lorries and people trying to leave. The roads are cracked, broken and uneven. All of this is hampering rescue efforts at what is a crucial time.

As you get closer to the epicentre, you can really see the scale of the devastation increase. We are still feeling aftershocks and people don’t want to be near buildings. When people feel them, they run.

In Osmaniye yesterday evening at a collapsed hotel which had 14 people in it, they found eight bodies and were still hoping to find survivors.

But there are so many collapsed buildings where no rescue work is going on at all. It’s impossible to conceive that all of those buildings were empty. Efforts appear to be concentrated on bigger buildings, the ones they think had more people in.

People are silent, dazed by what’s happened. They stand, they light fires to keep warm and they watch these rescues go on. It’s eerily quiet as they listen for any signs of life in the rubble.

A Turkish journalist, based in Istanbul, has just been speaking to our television colleagues, explaining the situation.

"People are still under the [collapsed] buildings, they need help," Ibrahim Haskologlu says.

Originally from Malatya - an area heavily affected by yesterday's earthquakes - he says he's planning to head home as soon as he can to help where it's needed.

He tells the BBC News Channel that people are sending him and other journalists videos, voice notes and their live locations from under the rubble.

They're telling us where they are and "we can't do anything," Haskologlu says, adding Turkey needs all the international help it can get.

Widespread internet outages caused by the earthquakes have been reported by internet monitoring group NetBlocks in areas of southern Turkey.

Some of the worst-affected cities include Osmaniye, Hatay and Adiyaman, the group says.

At least 20 detainees at a Syrian prison - believed to be jihadists - have escaped after the quake damaged the facility, a source has told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The prison in the town of Rajo near the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates, with about 1,300 of them suspected to be IS fighters, said an official at the jail. It also holds fighters from Kurdish-led forces.

Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake - which was followed by dozens of aftershocks in the region - caused damage including cracked walls and doors.

"[The] inmates started to mutiny and took control of parts of the prison.

"About 20 prisoners fled... who are believed to be Islamic State militants."

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We're beginning to hear just how many people could be affected by these earthquakes, with the World Health Organization (WHO) estimating that as many as 23 million people across Turkey and Syria "are exposed".

This includes around over one million children, WHO's senior emergencies officer Adelheid Marschang told the UN health agency's executive committee earlier.

Issues are already cropping up in Syria, which felt the effects of both quakes, with the flow of critical UN aid from Turkey being blocked due to damage on roads.

"This is a crisis on top of multiple crises in the affected region," Marschang said of Syria, adding the country's needs are high after "nearly 12 years of protracted, complex crisis, while humanitarian funding continues to decline".

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Footballer Christian Atsu has been pulled out of the rubble alive, according to his manager.

It was reported the former Newcastle United and Chelsea forward was trapped in the wreckage of a building yesterday.

Atsu, who is from Ghana, plays for the Turkish side Hatayspor, a club based in Antakya, one of the cities hit hardest by yesterday's earthquake.

Mustafa Özat told Radyo Gol, a Turkish radio station, that Atsu was "removed from the wreckage with injuries", BBC Africa reports.

He said the club's sporting director Taner Savut remains trapped beneath the rubble.

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China has allocated 400m yuan (£49m; $58.9m) worth of aid to support rescue efforts in Turkey. This will include rescue and medical personnel as well as various emergency supplies, said Deng Boqing, vice chairperson of the China International Development Cooperation Agency.

The national agency, which is responsible for the country's foreign aid operations, is coordinating the delivery of relief supplies to Syria. It will also step-up ongoing food aid projects in Syria, Deng said.

The Red Cross Society of China said it will send 2m yuan each to the Turkish Red Crescent and the Syrian Red Crescent as emergency humanitarian assistance.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has sent rescue personnel and relief goods to quake-hit areas in Turkey. In a statement on Tuesday, the prime minister's office said that from Wednesday, Pakistan International Airlines will send one plane carrying 15 tonnes of emergency supplies to Turkey and Syria.

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Istanbul

Here at Istanbul Airport, news of flight delays have been met with anger and tears from relatives on their way to search for missing loved ones.

One passenger, Samet, is trying to travel to Hatay to look for his 26-year-old brother Ismail who has been missing since the earthquake.

He shows me a picture of rubble on his phone, saying this is where his brother is.

Samet has been at the airport for almost five hours, waiting for a flight.

Staff say the runways at Adana Airport are full, causing delays.

Another passenger broke down in tears as he told me: “People are angry because they’ve lost family. Even me."

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If you're just joining our coverage, welcome along. Here are the latest details from Turkey and Syria.

• Over 5,000 deaths have now been confirmed across the two countries
• Turkey's death toll rose to at least 3,419, its vice-president Fuat Oktay said. A further 20,534 have been wounded and nearly 6,000 buildings have collapsed

• In Syria, the death toll has risen to 1,602
• Turkey's disaster and emergency management authority AFAD said in its latest update that over 24,400 emergency personnel are helping with search and rescue operations
• There are concerns that freezing conditions could hamper these efforts
• International aid is being sent to the affected region from the UN, EU, Nato and the governments of the US, UK, China, Russia, India, Japan, Iraq, Iran, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Pakistan, among others.

Stay with us as we, and our reporters in the region, cover the latest developments.