Rainclouds loom over the remains of Golcuk, the town which was at the epicentre of the earthquake.

A modest funeral service outside Golcuk. Many other people were buried before their bodies could be identified.

For the first few warm nights after the quake, survivors slept outside. Then the rain brought a desperate need for shelter.

Makeshift tents were hastily rigged from plastic sheeting.

Inside a tent, a child sleeps oblivious to the chaos outside.

Others take shelter under the wreckage of their former homes.

A monument to an Ottoman admiral in Golcuk provides a temporary refuge.

Turks in the United States read with horror the details emerging of the disaster in their motherland.

Hope amid the despair: Ismail Cimen, 4, was found alive after 140 hours buried under the rubble.

• After the quake
• The search for survivors
• Three days on