The number of people dead in the Turkey-Syria earthquake has reached 15,000, officially making it the world's deadliest earthquake in a decade.
There's growing anger that professional search and rescue crews have not been seen at many of the places they're needed most.
However you try to get your head around what's happened there, the sheer scale of the calamity is massive, no matter the angle or perspective. As the people and buildings get smaller, the tragedy only grows more overwhelming.
Satellite images show what the areas once looked like before and after they were flattened by the earthquake.
And from eye level, you fight the need to look away, as the haunting cry of a woman who can't take anymore makes you feel much the same.
On the street, piles of covered bodies now lie, waiting to be identified by family.
They fill town halls too. One man is seen lying next to his fiance. He kisses his great love, his lost love, gently on the head.
"I was planning to clothe her with a wedding dress but now I will clothe her with a funeral shroud," the man said.
The sound of grief is reverberating around Turkey, a collective heartbreak not even one should have to bear.
Rescuers are armed with little more than courage, left to use saucepans found in the rubble in their search for something far more valuable.
One boy was rescued in his pyjamas and given a helmet and boots by his rescuers.
There is a rising force in Turkey - it is the fury of the people.
"It's definitely a desperate situation given there is a lack of help from the government," said one man.
The anger at flailing authorities displays itself in anguish.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan admitted today that "of course, there are shortcomings. It is not possible to be prepared for such a disaster".
And he assured those begging for better that help is on its way. It is, but it’s moving very slowly.
The journey to the epicentre is hampered by snow and a crippling shortage of provisions.
Everywhere you look there are convoys of aid, desperately trying to get to the hardest hit areas. One came from Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe, which is stepping up to help those in desperate need.
Emergency services, soldiers, and aid organisations are all fighting each other for water and fuel. They are stranded on the outskirts of this crisis, desperate to join the few who have made it and who are so clearly in demand.
Many of the displaced are now living right next door to their pain. Alongside destroyed homes is an icy tent city.
About 92,000 people have been put up across the district, but temperatures are plummeting low below zero.
It’s so cold one mother says: "Three families, all of us living here, at night it is freezing."
Like the fractured highway that connects their two countries, there is a long, treacherous road ahead for the people of Turkey and Syria.
This earthquake has burst the heart of humanity there - everything they know was upended in an instant.
