People search through rubble following an earthquake in Adana, Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023.
Posted on 02/06/2023 5:10:57 AM PST by FarCenter
ADANA, TURKEY — An earthquake rattled this southern city Saturday, killing at least 108 people and injuring about 1,000, including several Americans at a military base, officials said.
Among those killed in the magnitude 6.2 quake were 37 people who lived in the slums of Adana, a city of 1 million, said Deputy Gov. Ardahan Totuk. At least 30 people were reported dead in the nearby town of Ceyhan, site of an oil terminal, the Anatolia news agency said.
It was not clear whether the oil pipeline linking Iraq to Turkey had suffered any damage.
State radio said 108 people had been reported killed. The number of injured had reached about 1,000, said Gov. Oguz Koksal.
According to an announcement from the headquarters of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, 25 people at Incirlik Air Base sustained minor injuries. The announcement did not say how many were U.S. nationals.
A U.S. Embassy source said a dozen U.S. citizens were lightly injured by falling objects.
The brief U.S. statement also said the earthquake caused substantial structural and electrical damage to buildings on base. Because the phone lines were knocked out in the quake, it was impossible to call the base directly for further details.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-06-28-9806280135-story.html
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Two quakes over 7.5
Damage is extreme
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And just like that...life changes.
Judging from the Turkey earthquake threads, the death toll is likely going to be much higher. LOTS of collapsed buildings.
Apparently the second quake collapsed a lot of buildings that were damaged by the first.
One can only imagine the lack of building codes in Turkey.
Taiwan had a 8. something a few yrs ago and 2 people died. Very few building had damage. Even in the new subway system only a few ceiling tiles came down.
Damn… STRICTER BUILDING CODES required.
Yep… and Turkey is no stranger too Earthquakes.
I lived in Adana and worked at the Incirlik air base (in Turkish the letter “c” is pronounced like a “j” in English). This is a very geologically active area. The other problem is how they build. A friend on base lived in a house where one wall separated from the outside wall. You could put your arm through from the hallway to the bedroom. Many areas of the country are prone to this seismic activity. Prayers for these folks.
The Nissan Dealership looks untouched. Perhaps because they demand their stores meet some sort of recognizable building code, while the others do not.
Many buildings I saw in Sinope and Trabzon were just walls built on the ground - no actual foundation, let alone earthquake mitigation - many were just wooden structures with overhanging later construction tacked on top, and stone buildings sometimes seemed like mortar was optional.
A city that’s recorded as being found 8 thousand years ago and is even mentioned in the Epic of Gilgemish has no doubt been destroyed and rebuilt, rubble upon rubble, dozens of times.
Pompey settled the Cilician pirates in Adana after he defeated them, but who knows if any of the present-day inhabitants are their descendants.
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What’s the point of announcing death tolls so early? We all know this will easily be in the tens of thousands.
The thing about this one is how long it lasted, and how widespread it was.
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