ANKARA, February 10. /TASS/. The death toll from the devastating earthquakes in Turkey has climbed to 19,875, Turkey’s disaster and emergency management authority said on Friday.

According to the authority, as many 79,717 people have been injured.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province, located in the country’s southeast, on February 6. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in ten provinces as well as in neighboring countries, including Syria.