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A huge landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey on Tuesday, trapping at least nine workers underground, officials said.

The landslide at the Copler mine happened at 2.30 p.m. near the town of Ilic in Turkey's mountainous Erzincan province. Footage seemingly shot by a nearby worker showed a massive wave of earth rushing down a gully, engulfing everything in its path.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed that only 85 billion Turkish Liras ($2.93 billion) out of the pledged 115 billion liras ($3.96 billion) have been collected for the national "Türkiye One Heart" campaign aimed at providing relief for the earthquake-stricken regions.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Turkish coast in the Aegean on Jan. 25, there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The quake was felt in the provinces of Muğla, İzmir and Antalya, with Turkey's AFAD emergency management agency saying it had a preliminary magnitude of 5.4.

Successive earthquakes on Aug. 31 rocked the Aegean Sea, According to Türkiye's disaster management agency AFAD and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

A 4.7-magnitude tremor hit at 09:56 GMT and was followed by a 5.1-magnitude quake at 10:10 GMT, according to AFAD. 

The earthquake was felt on the coastal cities of İzmir and Aydın. 

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus on Feb. 3, Turkey's disaster management agency AFAD reported.

The quake took place at 00:03 a.m. local time (2103 GMT) about 136 kilometers (84.5 miles) off Antalya province, according to AFAD.

It occurred at a depth of 13.20 kilometers (8.20 miles) below the surface, it added.

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit the Aegean Sea early on Nov. 30, according to Turkey's disaster agency AFAD. 

 The quake jolted the western Izmir province at 7 a.m. local time.

The epicenter of the quake was 56.18 kilometers (34.90 miles) from Urla district, with a depth of 3.97 kilometers (2.46 miles).

No casualties have been reported so far.

Unprecedented torrential rain wreaked havoc on Başkale's Esenyamaç, a village in the eastern province of Van, as authorities pledge to reshape the settlement to prevent future disasters.

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At least eight buildings were destroyed and 30 more structures were slightly damaged in the flood that occurred due to heavy rains lasting about half an hour.

A Turkish military plane carrying medical aid arrived in Lebanon's capital Beirut on Aug. 11 following the deadly blast last week that killed at least 171 people and injured thousands.

Hakan Çakıl, Turkey's ambassador to Lebanon, the Turkish embassy staff and Lebanese officials met the plane at the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut.

Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum has said a team of more than 500 personnel under the coordination of Turkey's disaster and emergency agency AFAD began working at a site of the Elazığ earthquake, in eastern Turkey, and that the housing needs of earthquake-affected citizens would be met immediately.

Turkey has a unique relief model in which humanitarian assistance and development aid go hand-in-hand, according to Mehmet Güllüoğlu, the head of the relief agency AFAD. Emboldened by the country coming second in global relief aid in 2016, Güllüoğlu says Turkey’s humanitarian assistance would continue unabated