Earthquake in Turkiye/Syria - 2 separate quakes in the region within hours of each other

[golden_blunder]

Unbelievable. Last couple of years I’ve started thinking if the earth is starting to wind down and these kind of things just freak me out.

RIP to all those who lost their lives and good luck to those still fighting v

 

[Red Rash]

Horrific news and crazy to think how many lives can get wrecked in a few minutes. Rest in peace to those who died

 

[Simbo]

 

[RedDevilQuebecois]

Iskenderun is a name I haven't heard in ages. Looking at how those containers were ragdolled by those earthquakes, my God!

Man, this whole disaster leaves me speechless. RIP to the victims and may those still stuck under the rubble hold on long enough for help to arrive.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Seen some horrific videos today. Just hoping they find many survivors under the building. Hoping the international community will do everything to help Turkey/Syria.

 

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[The Cat]

RIP to every one of them and best wishes to the survivors.

Life is so randomly unfair.

 

[MoskvaRed]

If you look at a map of Turkey, there are so many plates and fault-lines in that area, reflected in the fact that it’s mandatory to get earthquake insurance if you own a property there.

RIP to the victims of this tragic event.

 

[calodo2003]

 

[TheLiverBird]

If you look at a map of Turkey, there are so many plates and fault-lines in that area, reflected in the fact that it’s mandatory to get earthquake insurance if you own a property there.

RIP to the victims of this tragic event.

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.

Its Like the powers that be in that area of the world just sit back and essentially wait for the next major Earthquake too hit and not doing anything about it in the meantime to help minimise death tolls

 

[utdalltheway]

Some terrible videos and photos. RIP the victims and speedy recovery for the injured.
Not sure the living will ever forget this though. A lot of ptsd there
It’ll take years just to live normally again.

 

[Real Name]

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.

Its Like the powers that be in that area of the world just sit back and essentially wait for the next major Earthquake too hit and not doing anything about it in the meantime to help minimise death tolls

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.

Terrible, terrible news. Saw a video of a 3 year old boy being saved from rumble. Poor kid, what has he gone through.

We had a 5,2 quake in Zagreb and 6,10 in Petrinja and I still remember it and tremble every time I hear some louder sound, and those are far, far lighter than the ones in Turkey...

 

[Lay]

L'Equipe reporting that Atsu is missing along with Hatayspor sporting director Taner Savut and midfielder Onur Ergün. Yeni Matalyaspor goalkeeper Eyup Türkaslan has passed away.

Atsu has apparently been found alive and has been taken to hospital

 

[Penna]

We've experienced an earthquake and aftershocks out here in Italy 6 years ago. Many buildings are still unusable, but because we're not in a populous area the losses were largely structural, not human.

This disaster is going to take many years to put right, it's terrible.

 

[TheReligion]

5,000 dead and counting

So sad

 

[The Corinthian]

5,000 dead and counting

So sad

Up to 6,300 now. So sad.

 

[RoadTrip]

Up to 6,300 now. So sad.

And, sadly, worse yet to come I feel. I believe the WHO predicted somewhere in the region of 20k.

 

[The Corinthian]

 

[The Corinthian]

Shared as the "drawing of the day" on its Twitter account, the cartoon by artist Juin showed a damaged building, a toppled car and a heap of rubble with the caption: "No need to send tanks."

 

[calodo2003]

 

[utdalltheway]

Christ, that’s rough. Not too much one can say or add to that.

 

[2cents]

Death toll over 11,000 now. Such devastation across such a large region. The footage of pretty much the entire city of Antakya destroyed is so hard to see.

 

[AlPistacho]

11000 dead so far. This is one of the worse natural disasters I can remember. Even more shocking is that early on it seemed like the death toll was in the 100s

 

[Solius]

Atsu has apparently been found alive and has been taken to hospital

 

[The Corinthian]

Turkey earthquake: Rescuers gave little boy water from a bottle cap - BBC News

Turkey earthquake: Rescuers gave little boy water from a bottle cap


Turkey earthquake: Rescuers gave little boy water from a bottle cap

Rescue teams found a young Syrian boy called Muhammed trapped under rubble in Hatay, one of the worst-struck provinces in Turkey. They gave him water to drink from a bottle cap before pulling him out of the wreckage, nearly 45 hours after the major quake.
"Well done Muhammed. Our search and rescue team rescued Syrian citizen Muhammed Ahmed from the rubble in Antakya," Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu wrote on social media.


How can I embed a BBC video link?

 

[VorZakone]

11000 dead so far. This is one of the worse natural disasters I can remember. Even more shocking is that early on it seemed like the death toll was in the 100s

11.000 is insane and it will likely be higher.

 

[AlPistacho]

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 many

 

[2cents]

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 many

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.

 

[Abizzz]

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 many

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).

 

[2cents]

Such a huge area affected

 

[Abizzz]

Such a huge area affected

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 horrible

 

[shamans]

So sad. Natural disasters really are a reminder how weak and insignificant we are as humans

 

[calodo2003]

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 many

Haiti suffered 160K (potentially 300K) fatalities from a 7.1 in 2010.

 

[Dans]

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 many

The depth of the quake plays a role here too of course - the shallower, the more potential for damage.

 

[AlPistacho]

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.

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.

 

[AlPistacho]

The depth of the quake plays a role here too of course - the shallower, the more potential for damage.

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.

 

[AlPistacho]

Haiti suffered 160K (potentially 300K) fatalities from a 7.1 in 2010.

Can’t believe these things are forgotten so quickly.

 

[AlPistacho]

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).

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?

 

[Abizzz]

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.

 

[2cents]

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?

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.