Posted on 02/08/2023 5:39:00 PM PST by Nextrush
The number of people who lost their lives in the earthquakes in Kahramanmras increased to 12 thousand 391, and the number of survivors with injuries increased to 62 thousand 914.
Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) states that two earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 in Pazarcik and a magnitude of 7.6 in Elbistan occurred in Kahramanmaras.
While 1052 aftershocks occurred after the earthquakes, according to the latest information...
(Excerpt) Read more at trthaber.com ...
Well, last go-round (1999) of a quake this big in Turkey killed at least 17,000 people, with some estimates up to 45,000 killed.
The codes, at least the current codes, and probably even going back to 2008, are good. But due to corruption they are too often not followed or enforced.
Yes that's what I tell people (including my wife) around here. We are in the heavy damage area when the New Madrid Fault lets go again like it did in 1811-12.) And of course that's not an if, just a when.
Perhaps the worst of it is that we might get another quake series with major damage spread out over months. How does one get enough relief into such a vast area when the roads get repeatedly broken up or slide down hillsides, bridges fall, runways buckle or develop crevices, ports washed away, and so on? And, God forbid it happen in the winter, like both the new Madrid quakes and these shocks in Turkey. We might be able to run something like the Berlin airlift into, say, Memphis, but what about all of us in smaller towns and rural areas? Even our somewhat rural county has a population over 65k, and without adequate fuel, fertilizer, etc., farming is sure to partially break down.
So, as somewhat of a hedge, we have a small flock of chickens. And there are deer and various small game, fish in lakes, ponds, and the nearby rivers, but A) For the most part you gotta get to them, and, B) Violent confrontations for food will occur if things get bad enough.
Latest figures are over 20,000 dead in the Turkey/Syria area
It isn’t getting better a devastating event.
Related article from 2017, basically predicting this disaster would be worse than need be...
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/07/547608828/turkey
One wonders if the filling of open areas was also considered to reduce the risk of them becoming protest areas?
Now, IF the buildings that went into those open areas were really built to reliably withstand any likely quake, I can see that they would be an asset, becoming lots of shelter after a quake. But, if not so built...
“it was corruption”...
Let’s have the UN outlaw corruption, like it did for child trafficking and slavery... That should do it !!!
On the morning of February 6, a pair of powerful earthquakes, 7.8 and 7.6, hit Turkey and Syria. On top of that, the region was hit with strong aftershocks, which made the destruction even worse. The death toll is already in the tens of thousands with many victims still lying beneath the rubble.
Multiple factors led to this earthquake being so devastating, like fault lines, neighborhoods still reeling from war and delayed rescue missions. But what made this earthquake particularly catastrophic was unsafe buildings. According to the Turkish government, over 6,000 buildings collapsed because of this earthquake. And that’s likely because of the way they were built.
This video will explain how bad building design made the Turkey-Syria earthquake more deadly than it had to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnlCRoBAcuw
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