The Turkey Earthquake is undoubtedly one of the biggest and most destructive earthquakes in the last hundred years in the world, which affected more than ten major cities in Turkey and caused irreparable destruction and caused many people to become homeless in this country.
Earthquake Turkey occurred on February 6 in Turkey at around 4:17 am in the center of Kahramanmaras city and its strength was 7.8. This earthquake also had several aftershocks, the largest aftershock occurred about 9 hours later and its strength was about 7.5 Richter said that a huge part of the destructions that occurred in the city of Kahramanmaras is related to this aftershock.
The earthquake in Turkey has not only affected the provinces of this country, but many cities in Syria have also suffered severe damage from this earthquake. The city of Aleppo, near the border of Turkey, is one of the cities in Syria that suffered a lot of damage and destruction in this earthquake, which made many people homeless and killed many people.
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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria
The lives of millions of people across Turkey and Syria were forever changed on Monday, February 6, as two consecutive earthquakes shook hundreds of kilometers of land in Syria and Turkey. These earthquakes shook Turkey and Syria with an interval of 9 hours and with a magnitude of 7.8 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.
The number of casualties of this earthquake in Turkey until today, which has been about ten days since its occurrence, is more than 36 thousand people and many people are still missing or hospitalized.
The World Health Organization announced the number of people affected by this disaster at 23 million and at least 6,000 buildings collapsed in these two countries, which is a very high number and shows the depth of this disaster.
Relief and rescue efforts are still the main priority in Turkey and about 25 thousand people have settled in Turkey and thousands of other people from different countries of the world have been sent to Turkey for relief. This is an earthquake and the cold weather threatens the lives of thousands of people in the earthquake-stricken cities of Turkey.
Syria, which has experienced 12 years of war and destruction, is the least prepared to deal with such a crisis. The infrastructure of this war-torn country has severely deteriorated and the country is still under Western sanctions. As the dust settles from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, regional analysts are examining the long-term ripple effect this disaster could have on the two countries.
The condition of buildings after the earthquake
The condition of the buildings after the earthquake in Turkey is very terrible, and most of the buildings in the earthquake-affected cities have been completely destroyed or have suffered a lot of damage from the recent earthquake.
In a report, Al Jazeera English website investigated the causes of the collapse of many buildings in the recent earthquake in Turkey, and the points stated in this report are very important.
Prof. Okan Tuysuz, a geological engineer from Istanbul Technical University, believes that the tragic combination of all the above cases led to the earthquake disaster in Turkey. He expressed his opinion in an interview with Al-Jazeera. Here we are facing really huge earthquakes.
The first one was roughly equivalent to the release of energy from the explosion of about 5 million tons of TNT. The second was equivalent to 3.5 million tons. “Most buildings are not able to withstand such a force.
” Sinan Turkan, a civil engineer and head of the Turkish Earthquake Resilience Association, had the same opinion as Professor Okan Tuysuz. “Many buildings sustained only mild to moderate damage in the first earthquake, but collapsed after the second.”
Turkey’s big urban transformation project
Many buildings have collapsed in the earthquake-stricken cities of Turkey, but the question that has occupied the minds of all the people of the world in the meantime is the insufficient resistance of the buildings.
Many people ask whether the resistance of the buildings was not enough or the intensity of the earthquake in Turkey caused these extensive destructions and made people displaced and homeless in this way?
In response to this question, most experts and experts in this field believe that it was these buildings that killed people and made many people homeless in the recent earthquake.
Most of the buildings that were destroyed in the recent earthquake in Turkey were built before 1999, when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the western Marmara region and killed 17,500 people.
Since then, the government has significantly improved Turkey’s seismic design code, and in 2008 began a major Turkish urban transformation project to make the country’s buildings ready and resilient for the next major earthquake.
The situation of different cities after the earthquake in Turkey
The situation of different cities after the earthquake in Turkey is different from each other, some cities such as “Antakya” city, which is on the border with Syria, suffered the most damage from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and the ground fracture is quite evident in different parts of this city and you can clearly see the distance of different parts of the earth from each other.
The earthquake in this city killed thousands of people and left extensive damages that will take years to compensate.
The earthquake in the city of Antakya did not leave the cities of Syria unlucky, and many cities bordering Turkey were destroyed in this earthquake. Aleppo is one of the largest cities in Syria, a large part of which was destroyed in the earthquake, and its buildings It is completely destroyed.
The city of “Kahramanmaras” is another city in Turkey that was damaged not only by the first earthquake, but also by the second earthquake that occurred 9 hours later, and many buildings in this big city were completely destroyed.
The center of the first earthquake in Turkey was the city of Gaziantep, this city also suffered a lot of damage from the earthquake and many people lost their lives in the buildings of this city. Residents of the provinces of Antakya, Aleppo, Homs and even Damascus in Syria have felt the intensity of this great earthquake and large parts of these countries have been destroyed.
The Turkish earthquake shook the historical monuments of Syria and Turkey
Turkey’s earthquake shook the historical monuments of Syria, this is the headline of Al Jazeera news agency after the earthquake of February 17 in Turkey and Syria, which destroyed a large part of the cities of these two countries and many ancient monuments were destroyed in these countries.
This earthquake in Turkey has completely destroyed ancient monuments that have resisted wars and disasters, or a large part of these ancient monuments have been damaged.
Experts worry that the earthquakes will cause the loss of the region’s cultural heritage, with the Turkish government saying that more than 5,600 buildings have been destroyed in the country alone.
On Tuesday, a week after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, UNESCO warned that several places registered in the list of ancient monuments were completely destroyed or seriously damaged in this earthquake.
Some of the most famous ancient monuments of Turkey and Syria that were damaged in the recent earthquake are:
Gaziantep Castle in Turkey:
This castle is located in the center of the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, since the second century AD, local people call this building “Gaziantep Kalesi”, large parts of this ancient castle were destroyed in the Turkish earthquake, and many walls and towers Its surveillance has collapsed.
Some fortifications in the eastern, southern and southeastern parts of the historical Gaziantep fortress in the central Sahin Bey district were destroyed by the earthquake and the debris was scattered in the nearby streets, Turkish state news agency reported on Monday. This fort was initially used as a lookout area, but later it was turned into a full-fledged fort by the Romans.
Before the recent earthquake, many tourists from different countries of the world used to travel to Turkey and the city of Gaziantep to visit this ancient castle.
Sirvani Mosque of Gaziantep
This mosque belonging to the 17th century is located in the vicinity of Gaziantep Castle and was heavily damaged in the Turkish earthquake. The eastern wall and the dome of this mosque have collapsed to a large extent and a large part of this historic mosque has been destroyed.
This mosque is one of the oldest mosques in the city of Gaziantep and has long been noted not only as a religious building but also as an architectural wonder have been. The earthquake in Turkey has destroyed many mosques and historical monuments in different cities of this country, which is a great loss for a tourist country like Turkey.
Aleppo Citadel in Aleppo, Syria
This castle is one of the oldest standing castles in the world, but it suffered a lot from the Turkish earthquake, parts of the watch tower and the walls of this historical castle were destroyed.
UNESCO announced in a statement: The western tower of the wall of the Aleppo Citadel in the Syrian city of Aleppo has collapsed and several buildings in its vicinity have been destroyed.
Malatya City Mosque
The 17th century mosque in the ancient city of Malatya in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey has been damaged many times by earthquakes. It was completely destroyed in the 1894 earthquake, but then rebuilt, then it was damaged again in the 1964 earthquake. Turkey was not spared and many damages were done to the walls and minarets of this building.
What should have been done before the earthquake in Turkey?
What should have been done before the earthquake in Turkey? Experts believe that a significant percentage of buildings in different cities of Turkey are not in a condition to withstand strong tremors and will be destroyed by the first strong earthquake in Turkey.
Strengthening or renovating all buildings at risk in all earthquake-prone areas of this country is a difficult and expensive matter from a technical and specialized point of view, but these costs are not important to prevent deaths from natural disasters.
Sinan Turkan says: “The government should act more strongly in forcing people to inspect, strengthen and, if necessary, rebuild their buildings.
“People are significantly less likely to volunteer to pay, but this is a matter of life and death and should be taken very seriously.
” The current situation of Turkey and its earthquake-prone areas is an important lesson for all the people of the world, especially earthquake-prone countries such as Iran, and the authorities in these countries should act before it is too late to strengthen buildings in earthquake-prone cities.
Summary of the fate of earthquake-hit cities after the earthquake in Turkey
Earthquake is a natural disaster that has caused extensive human and financial losses in Turkey in recent years and many people have lost their lives in this country of 85 million people.
Saving from an earthquake is one of the most important points that citizens, especially in earthquake-prone areas, should have enough information about so that they can save their lives and others by keeping their cool.
But observing some points before the earthquake can save human life and property and reduce the amount of financial damages.
Many experts agreed on one issue after the Turkish earthquake, they clearly stated that the cause of destruction. The death of people in the recent earthquake in Turkey was due to the buildings, and unprincipled construction has caused the death of people.
Many people lost their lives in this earthquake due to the lack of resistance of residential buildings or were under the rubble for many days. If the necessary warnings had been issued before the start of the constructions regarding the observance of the law and the strengthening of the buildings, maybe the earthquake in Turkey would not have caused so much destruction today.
Turkey’s earthquake can be a good lesson for many earthquake-prone countries in the region, including Iran, to build buildings with greater resistance and for governments to monitor the construction process more.
Frequently asked questions about the Turkish earthquake
What is the magnitude of the earthquake in Turkey?
Since the morning of Monday, February 6, Turkey has experienced major earthquakes, the largest of which were 7.8 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.
Which cities are the epicenter of the Turkish earthquake?
The first earthquake occurred in Gaziantep in the southeast of Turkey and the second earthquake occurred in Kahramanmaras province. North Syria was also damaged by these earthquakes in Turkey and large parts of Syrian border cities were destroyed.
Turkey’s earthquake has caused the destruction of buildings in how many cities of this country?
According to the official announcement of the Turkish government news agency, in the recent earthquake of this country, the center of which were the cities of Gaziantep and Kahramanmaras, Hatay, Osmaniye, Kilis, Malatya, Adiyaman, Antakya, Diyarbakir, Elazig and Sanliurfa, more than ten cities of this country were affected and many buildings in these cities were destroyed or completely destroyed.
What time did the earthquake in Turkey happen?
The first earthquake occurred in the center of Gaziantep city at around 4 am, the second earthquake occurred in the center of Kahramanmaras city 9 hours after this earthquake, around 2 pm.