Over the weekend and early this week, Turkey was rocked by a massive 7.8-magnitude quake and was rocked with hundreds of aftershocks, including many high-magnitude ones.

The death toll is well over 5,100 by now and is expected to climb.

As a result, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a 3-month long state of emergency in 10 of the country’s regions.

Tens of thousands of search and rescue workers are flooding the hardest-hit regions, looking for survivors, and over 6,000 structures were destroyed.

The Turkish economy was already in dire straits but this new blow could devastate the country even as they scramble to provide a safe haven for refugees fleeing political violence in Syria.

Many experts are questioning why so many structures were clearly unfit to withstand earthquakes despite the region being a well-known hotspot for seismic activity.

In 1999, a massive quake in Turkey killed over 18,000 – so people want answers about why there was not an adequate official response to the last time this happened.