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Iskenderun is a name I haven't heard in ages. Looking at how those containers were ragdolled by those earthquakes, my God!
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I know you can’t make places in such regions ultra safe against earthquakes Building infrastructure wise……but you can atleast try and implement better structurally equipped buildings in an earthquake zone to atleast attempt to minimise causalities in future, the build infrastructure in Turkey is utterly appalling especially when you consider their history with Earthquakes.
Yeah, they started something after 1999 quake but too late. Lots of those buildings and houses are not built to stand even a weaker quakes, let alone catastrophic like the 2 yesterday.
Atsu has apparently been found alive and has been taken to hospital
Up to 6,300 now. So sad.5,000 dead and counting
So sad
And, sadly, worse yet to come I feel. I believe the WHO predicted somewhere in the region of 20k.
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Christ, that’s rough. Not too much one can say or add to that.
11.000 is insane and it will likely be higher.
Any idea how it got so bad? Because the breaking news didn’t report a huge earthquake. I heard 7.1, I know that’s still very powerful but never heard one like that take so many11.000 is insane and it will likely be higher.
There were two earthquakes in quick succession, the first was 7.8, the second 7.6. I can imagine the second one doing even more damage than the first despite being weaker. For comparison, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that resulted in over 80,000 deaths measured 7.6.
From what I saw it looked like whatever magnitude it was it kept going at that magnitude for quite a while. (That's only speculation, I have no more knowledge than the next person but I think a longer duration must increase the destructiveness in itself).
I spoke to family in northern cyprus and they felt it (no damages though luckily). For people unaware some of that area most affected is densely populated. It's truly horribleSuch a huge area affected
Haiti suffered 160K (potentially 300K) fatalities from a 7.1 in 2010.
The depth of the quake plays a role here too of course - the shallower, the more potential for damage.
80,000 that’s next level stuff. The amount of tragedies that we quickly forget. I didn’t even know there was an earthquake that took so many since the 2000s started.
That’s a good point. Now you’ve said it. I saw one video that I actually thought was cgi because the way the ground moved. It rippled like water.
Can’t believe these things are forgotten so quickly.
Could be a factor. @Dans also made good point about depth of the earthquake, the shallower the more damage it’s likely to cause. Maybe you point and Dans are linked?
Possibly but I'd be guessing and am not really comfortable doing so in a field I have so little scientific knowledge of.
I was in an area of northern Pakistan not far from the epicenter in 2005, but it escaped major damage despite getting a good shake. I was later told it was because where I was - Gilgit - is at a much higher altitude than the epicenter area around Muzaffarabad, which is a relatively lower level valley region, and so the mountains helped absorb the shock and take the edge off the impact.
