The UN calls for aid workers to get more resources and warns the full extent of the disaster is still unfolding.
Mr Guterres promised more help was on its way and he urged the UN Security Council to allow supplies to be delivered through more than one border crossing.
Munira Mohammad, a mother of four who fled Aleppo after the quake, told Reuters that they were in desperate need of heating and more supplies, saying: "last night we couldn't sleep because it was so cold. It is very bad." "This makes us very disappointed at a time when we are desperate for such equipment to help us save lives from under the rubble," the group said on Twitter.Officials said on Thursday that 17,134 people had died in Turkey and the death toll was at least 3,162 in Syria. The toll surpasses the more than 17,000 killed when a similar quake hit northwest Turkey in 1999.
Resat Gozlu, a survivor in south-eastern Turkey who is now living on the floor of a sports complex with his family, said rescue workers did not arrive until three days after the quake."If this continues there could be serious health issues and illness," he told the BBC.
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