At 4 a.m. on Monday, when the earthquake hit, most of the 4.5 million people living in northwestern Syria were asleep. Thousands of buildings collapsed, burying their residents alive.
The majority of those living in this small corner of Syria had already been displaced from their homes in other parts of the country by the civil war.
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