Gaziantep Castle, built 2,200 years ago....Gone!
Posted on 02/06/2023 5:15:14 AM PST by FarCenter
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern province of Kahramanmaraş, claiming the lives of at least 1014 people and injuring more than 5,000 others, while tremors were also in nine other provinces in the country.
The magnitude 7.7 quake struck 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) below the surface in Kahramanmaraş’s Pazarcık district on Feb. 6 at 4:17 a.m., according to Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).
After multiple large and small tremors, another 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Kahramanmaraş at 1:26 p.m.
Many buildings damaged in the first major earthquake collapsed by the impact of the second major earthquake.
The earthquake also rocked the neighboring provinces of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır, Adana, Adıyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay and Kilis and neighboring countries, including Syria and Lebanon.
Following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake centered in Kahramanmaraş’s Pazarcık district, nearly 100 aftershocks were experienced in the region, most of them over magnitude 6, AFAD announced.
There was also a 3.8 in New York today
At least 592 people have been killed and hundreds injured in Syria after a series of powerful earthquakes centered in southeastern Türkiye jolted the wider region early on Monday, according to figures compiled from the Syrian regime’s Health Ministry and Syrian Civil Defense.
The state-run SANA news agency reported, citing the Health Ministry, that at least 371 people were killed and 1,089 others injured, while Syrian Civil Defense said 221 people were killed and more than 419 others injured in areas under opposition control in northwestern Syria.
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/powerful-earthquakes-kill-at-least-592-in-syria-3660168
First was a magnitude 7.8
Did Göbekli Tepe survive intact?
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That hill it was on might be a tell built up from century after century of habitation going back to even before the Hittites who built the first fortress there. One slight sliver of silver lining might be that this loss could open the door to excavations.
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