Satellite images before and after Turkey-Syria earthquake highlight devastation

These are the before and after pictures that show the scale of the destruction in Turkey and Syria following last week’s devastating earthquake.

The images show collapsed buildings, cracked concrete and a major landslip following the 7.8 magnitude quake which struck the region.

So far, more than 37,000 people have died, while homes and areas of towns and cities have been turned to rubble.

Here Sky News has brought together images, before and after last Monday’s earthquake, to show the extent of the damage.

This mountain pass has been completely covered during a landslip caused by last week’s earthquake.

The road is around 2.7 miles (4.4km) southwest from Islahiye, in the province of Gaziantep, and was one of the areas which had some of the most serious tremors.

Islahiye is a railway border town with Syria.

These photographs show the scale of the destruction in the port city of Iskenderun in Turkey.

The city, beside the Mediterranean Sea in the province of Hatay, was heavily damaged in the earthquake.

Pictures show the aftermath of a fire which broke out as a result.

More than a thousand containers were involved and firefighters had to separate them in order to stop the spread.

In the centre of the city, satellite images show collapsed buildings.

In one collapsed building, a husband, wife and their four children were rescued after spending 101 hours trapped beneath the debris.

The family managed to survive by huddling together in a small air pocket beneath a collapsed building.

In central Jindires, a town in northwest Syria, near to the border with Turkey, satellite images show the destruction on the ground.

The images show collapsed buildings, including what appears to be a number of blocks of flats turned to rubble.

Roughly a quarter of the town is believed to have been destroyed by the quake.

Similarly, in the north and the east of the town, the satellite images show the destruction with piles of rubble where buildings used to stand.

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Jindires is also the town where a baby was born under the rubble of her home before being rescued.

Her mother is believed to have gone into labour as the earthquake hit.

Sadly, neither of the girl’s parents nor her four siblings are believed to have survived, according to officials.

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Near the town of Altinüzüm, in the west of Gaziantep, images show the very heart of last Monday’s earthquake.

The before and after satellite images show the fault line running along fields up to a concreted area, where the crack continues through.

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