Earthquake survivor: I'm waiting if they're gonna get away, my kids are freezing down.

An old woman prays in Kurdish, waiting to hear something from her sister and grandchildren still in ruins. So begins the BBC report with earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria, Periscopi translates.

This old woman, comforted by her neighbors who say: “they saved a person a few minutes ago, will come out to save your family, as well as”.

But she does not have that much hope, since she lived on the first floor, in a 12 - story building.

They were on the first floor, sleeping, I don't know if anyone has yet to reach them... and it's getting very cold, my children will be brought up in ruins”, she says of the BBC, following Periscope.

We thought it was an apocalypse.

Earthquake-hit residents in several areas of Turkey have described today's morning experience as shocking.

Tullius Akkaya, who lives in Diyarbakir, says she was trying to recover after the first strong quake from today's earthquake, but until that happened, she adds that the second quake occurred immediately.

I'm so scared. I felt the earthquake as I live on the highest floor”, she told the AFP in the confession that the BBC next receives.

We ran out in panic. I can't go back to my apartment right now. I don't know what's going to happen away from”, she says.

The focus of Turkey's first powerful earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8 on Richthir, occurred in the town of Gaziantep, until the second, it was 7.8 degrees in the western province of Kahramanmaras.

So far, as a result of the catastrophic earthquake, the number of victims has reached nearly 2,000. /From the BBC translated: Periscope/main photo of the news: Reuters/