Strong Earthquake Shakes Eastern Turkey

Las Vegas Sun ^ | March 14, 2005 at 0:41:33 PST | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - A strong earthquake shook eastern Turkey on Monday, damaging buildings and injuring at least 11 people, two days after another quake in the region, authorities said.

The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 and was centered in rural Bingol province. It toppled several buildings that had been badly damaged in Saturday's magnitude 5.7 temblor, officials said.

No deaths were reported, but Erkan Capar, a local official, told the Anatolia news agency that at least 11 people sustained injuries.

Television footage showed panicked residents huddling around fires outside to keep warm in the in the snow-covered area. Scores of people have been staying in tents since Saturday's quake, and authorities were distributing more tents Monday.

Bingol is 430 miles east of Ankara.

Saturday's earthquake damaged more than 200 hundred buildings and injured 16 people, according to the prime minister's office.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies atop active fault lines. Two massive quakes killed some 18,000 people in 1999.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[bd476]

Wow, I saw this one earlier, Ernest, then my computer crashed. Thanks for posting this story!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There was a 4.2 near mammoth today also I think.

[Boot Hill]

"Strong Earthquake Shakes Eastern Turkey"

As you can see from the USGS table below, the official designation of a 5.9 earthquake is only "moderate", not strong. Moreover, as you can also see by the table, there are so many moderate (5.0-5.9) magnitude earthquakes every year that if you posted all of them it would take up four threads every day.

Worldwide Frequency of Occurrence of Earthquakes

Descriptor	Magnitude	Average Annually
Great	8 and higher	11
Major	7 - 7.9	172
Strong	6 - 6.9	1342
Moderate	5 - 5.9	1,3192
Light	4 - 4.9	13,000(est.)
Minor	3 - 3.9	130,000(est.)
Very Minor	2 - 2.9	1,300,000(est.)
1Based on observations since 1900. 2Based on observations since 1900.

I'm puzzled as to why you find any significance to such trivial and inconsequential earthquakes?

--Boot Hill

[bd476]

Boot Hill wrote: "I'm puzzled as to why you find any significance to such trivial and inconsequential earthquakes?"

What is more puzzling is your taking the time to copy and paste information from another website without first reading the posted article, or noting the linked source of the news article.

It sounds as if you might be projecting your anger, energy and time onto the wrong person. Ernest posted a story carried by the Associated Press which was published by The Las Vegas Sun.

Here is information found on Las Vegas Sun's website where you can write a letter to their editor regarding their publishing a story which you consider as "trivial and inconsequential."

"Question

How do I send a letter to the editor?

Answer

Send your letter to letters@vegas.com. Letters should be no more than 250 words and may be shortened by the editor. All letters and faxes must include the writer's name, signature, address and telephone number. All e-mail letters must include the writer's name address and telephone number. Anonymous letters will not be printed and names will not be withheld. "

[oceanperch]

I am puzzled why men enjoy rebuilding old cars. Pesonally speaking it is the wonderment of earthquakes,storms, volcanoes ect.... and I like collecting rocks. I guess you could say for me anyway it is a hobby to wonder.

[oceanperch]

Well it a long way from Mt. Diablo.

I lived at the base of Mt. Diable in my last home before coming to the Oregon Coast 17yrs ago and grew up with it in view.

I think it was the Hayward Fault that ran through that area.

Nt. Diablo has an interesting history of how it was named and the indians who lived there long ago. We use to love going up there as kids and thought every hole carved out was an indian bed. LOL

[oceanperch]

That is an interesting factual bit you put up.

Thanks.

[oceanperch]

I am always thinking of your full moon posts.

I wonder if the ebb and tides pull from the new moon effect different parts of the earth.

The Full moon effecting other alternate parts then the new moon.

Just wondering, nothing factual.

[bd476]

From: Channel NewsAsia International


Women and childrens look at a collapsed building in Karliova village
Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 13 March 2005 0426 hrs

Earthquake in eastern Turkey injures 16, causes damage

ANKARA : At least 16 people were hurt and dozens of buildings were damaged in eastern Turkey when an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook the region, officials said.

The epicenter of the tremor, which struck at 9:36 am (0736 GMT), was at the town of Karliova in Bingol province, according to the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory.

Fifteen people were hospitalized in Karliova with minor injuries and another person was hurt in the neighboring province of Erzurum, where the tremor was also felt, local officials told Anatolia news agency.

About 130 buildings were damaged in the region.

Barns collapsed and animals perished in six villages, Bingol Governor Vehbi Avuc said, adding that heavy snowfall in the past two days was causing difficulties in communication with remote villages in the mountainous region.

The tremor caused panic in Karliova, sending residents into snow-covered streets, television footage showed.

Quakes of such a magnitude have claimed lives in Turkey.

A quake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale killed 176 people in Bingol province in May 2003, almost half of them children sleeping in a boarding school.

In Erzurum, an avalanche triggered by Saturday's tremor blocked for several hours the main road linking the same-name provincial capital and the town of Cat, Anatolia reported.

The quake was also felt in the neighboring provinces of Diyarbakir, Mus and Tunceli.

The authorities dispatched search-and-rescue teams to the region, while the Turkish Red Crescent sent tents and other humanitarian supplies.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several seismological faultlines. Some 20,000 people perished in two massive tremors in August and November 1999.

- AFP Earthquake in eastern Turkey injures 16, causes damage

[bd476]

Magnitude 5.5 - EASTERN TURKEY
2005 March 14 01:56:01 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A moderate earthquake occurred at 01:56:01 (UTC) on Monday, March 14, 2005. The magnitude 5.5 event has been located in EASTERN TURKEY. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	5.5
Date-Time	Monday, March 14, 2005 at 01:56:01 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Monday, March 14, 2005 at 3:56:01 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	39.357°N, 40.904°E
Depth	25 km (15.5 miles) set by location program
Region	EASTERN TURKEY
Distances	65 km (40 miles) NE of Bingol, Turkey 75 km (45 miles) SSW of Erzurum, Turkey 85 km (55 miles) NW of Mus, Turkey 695 km (430 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 7.6 km (4.7 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst= 61, Nph= 61, Dmin=244.3 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 76°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usvqaf

[dakine]

Across the wire on CNBC this a.m. about quake in Bombay...

[bd476]

There was an earthquake on the Mid-Indian Ridge but the locale is here:

Magnitude 5.8 MID-INDIAN RIDGE
Monday, March 14, 2005 at 05:11:58 UTC

Monday, March 14, 2005 at 05:11:58 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Monday, March 14, 2005 at 10:11:58 AM local time at epicenter

Location	27.74S 73.83E
Depth	10.0 kilometers
Region	MID-INDIAN RIDGE
Reference	1170 km (730 miles) NNW of Amsterdam Island 1380 km (860 miles) SE of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius 1860 km (1150 miles) ESE of PORT LOUIS, Mauritius 4065 km (2520 miles) W of PERTH, Western Australia, Australia
Location Quality	Error estimate: horizontal +/- 7.9 km; depth fixed by location program
Location Quality Parameters	Nst=88, Nph=88, Dmin=2251.3 km, Rmss=0.85 sec, Erho=7.9 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=49.8 degrees

[bd476]

Ping.

[bd476]

Dakine, thank you for the info. Still nothing shows on the USGS site but I found this:

Tremors hit Mumbai, Pune, B'lore
By: PTI
March 14, 2005
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Mumbaikars turned lucky this afternoon when an earthquake shook the city but at a relatively minor scale. The tremors occurred around 3.17 this afternoon and shook furniture in a building near the Bombay Stock Exchange in south Mumbai.

Reports said the quake measured 5.1 on the Richter scale.

The quake was also felt in parts of Pune and Bangalore. Met officials said the epicentre of the quake was near the Koyna dam in western Maharashtra. Early this morning, a high-intensity quake hit the Andamans.

[Boot Hill]

"It sounds as if you might be projecting your anger...

LOL, the only anger I read in this entire thread came from your own post!

(But it reminds me of the old saying: "When the flak gets heavy, it means you are over the target"!)

--Boot Hill

[bd476]

LOL! It is good to know that you enjoy reading about earthquakes.

[Boot Hill]

"It is good to know that you enjoy reading about earthquakes."

I've lived here in California for over 55 years, surrounded by five major earthquake faults in the immediate vicinity of my home. I love earthquakes. I love reading about them. As an engineer, I love learning about the advancements in geologic sciences. My computer is set a single click away from the USGS California, U.S. and worldwide earthquake maps and I review them nearly every day.

And it was in that light that I posted the USGS table in #5 so that other lurkers and posters, who don't have the same intimate familiarity with earthquakes, would be able to learn that the earthquakes, as small as being reported here (and on other FR threads), are considered as trivial and common as ants at a picnic and just about as dangerous.

So I'm still puzzled as to why events as trivial as these would be posted so often on the country's premier conservative political forum.

--Boot Hill

[bd476]

Here it is Dakine:

SOUTHERN INDIA mb=5.5 2005/03/14 09:43:49 17.1 N 74.1 E