First the shock. Then the panic. It is 4:15 a.m. in Gaziantep on Monday, February 6, when Kadir abruptly jumps out of his chair. Behind his computer screen, on all night to complete a project, the mirror shook and broke. The Turkish graphic designer clings to his table, which is also moving, and raises his head. The whole room rocks. Close shaking, " like in a shaker ," he confides later by telephone. In panic, he rushes into the stairwell, stormed by other panicked neighbors, in pajamas, woolen hats, coats and socks. At the foot of the building, covered in snow, the deprem(earthquake) left a landscape of desolation: clusters of women and children in tears, shivering with cold, pale faces lit by the only light of smartphones, while men scream at the top of their voices to wake up the last sleeping ones. “The apocalypse!” exclaims Kadir, sending us, via the WhatsApp messaging application, the photo of a building, crushed like a millefeuille, not far from his home, in the central district of Gazi Muhtar Pasa . Then that of the castle of the city, dating from the Ottoman era, partially damaged . "You hear behind me the sound of security sirens, in buildings and stores, and then the even more strident sound of ambulances. It is the song of death. We have only heard that since this morning , ”he continues. According to the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers, near the Turkish town of Kahramanmaras, sixty kilometers from the Syrian border. In Diyarbakir, Antakya or Gaziantep, the earth rumbled loudly, so loudly that the post-seismic tremors keep coming. " With my friends, we counted about forty ," says Malek, another resident of Gaziantep, summoned by the local authorities to stay outside. Justified precaution: a second earthquake, of magnitude 7.5, hit Turkey a few hours later, at the end of the morning, at the very moment when improvised committees were trying to come to the aid of people trapped under the debris. In the city of Malatya, the second depremwas filmed live by a team from the Turkish channel A Haber. Facing the camera, the journalist flees while a building collapses behind him. The toll of the disaster, initially estimated at a few hundred dead, rose at the end of the day to nearly 1,500 victims in Turkey, as well as more than 8,500 injured.