How do they know how many people died so soon after a major disaster?

Question

In Turkey and Syria now they’re saying 1,800 people died already. Is it as simple as counting the bodies and reporting that?

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Answer 1

You’re not dead until someone with a clipboard says yup this one is dead. So the count so far is only the ones someone officially counted.

In a disaster like this it could be as chaotic as someone walking down the street counting the bodies the rescuers have piled up.

This disaster will likely hit a 100 thousand. It hit early morning…look at the rows. Whole streets of collapsed buildings. Remember that beach front condo building in Florida that collapsed with over 100 lost. That was just one wing of the building and I’ll bet those apartments weren’t as stuffed with families as living quarters in Turkiye.