Turkey’s Earthquake
Turkey will tragically remember the date of 6 February 2023 as the worst calamity occurred, when a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck the eastern, southern area of Turkey and north-western Syria, which is the second big earthquake since 1939.
According to the report, so far as a result of Turkey’s Earthquake about 3,500 people passed away, more than 6,000 people were hurt, and about 5,775 buildings were demolished until now. In Syria, over 1600 people died and 1,042 were injured up to now, a country that has already been devastated by more than eleven years of civil war.
As rescue workers and locals desperately searched for survivors in the ruins of collapsed buildings in cities on both sides of the border, it was expected that the death toll would increase.
Gaziantep, located in the south of the country, is a place where almost 2 million people live, is suffering from the Earthquake today Turkey in which the earthquake happened at 4.17 am local time (1.17 am GMT), 17.9 km (11 miles) beneath the surface, 150 miles from the Syrian border and 50 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake in Kahramanmaras.
Turkey Earthquake, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey’s Gaziantep province, with an epicenter that was 24.1 kilometers below the earth’s surface and 23 kilometers to the east of Nurdagi, after that tremor with a 7.8 magnitude, around nine hours later , another powerful aftershock with a magnitude of 7.5 struck Turkey, some 95 kilometers to the north.
This Earthquake in Turkey is the second-largest to strike the country since a similar-sized earthquake in 1939 claimed the lives of close to 30,000 people. Less than five earthquakes of this size are said to occur globally on average each year, which is a truly horrific and horrible event.
Seven earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.0 or greater have occurred in Turkey over the past 25 years, but Monday’s was the most powerful because this is a rather large fault zone, yet.
Because of Turkey’s Earthquake, its southern and central part have experienced strong aftershock of 6.7 magnitude roughly 11 minutes later, which is 32 kilometers to the northwest of the main earthquake’s epicenter. Another aftershock of 5.6-magnitude, occurred 19 minutes after the main earthquake was similarly very destructive.
The distance between both the city and Istanbul is about one hour and thirty minutes by plane and almost twenty hours by bus. Turkey Earthquake completely damaged the city’s historic castle, an ancient and magnificent stone structure on top of a hill used as a command post during the Roman era.
The earthquake caused numerous historic buildings and high-rise apartment buildings to collapse, whole buildings have been smashed, and cars have also fallen, leaving metal rods all over the streets. Additionally, Gaziantep Castle has also been severely damaged. Buildings collapsed in the cities of Adıyaman, Malatya, Hatay, Antakya and Diyarbakır as well.
Manolya Tourism Agency offers its condolences to the good nation of Turkey for this great loss.
