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| Audi-Tek | October 23 2011, 05:35 PM Post #1 |
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7.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Turkey.![]() Thumbnail of a just published hurriyet image.The image is probably from the 7-storey apartment building who collapsed. A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 shook southeastern Turkey on Sunday, Turkey's Kandilli Observatory said, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing scores of people. Turkey's main seismography center says the quake could have killed up to 1,000 people. The Kandilli observatory's estimate is based on the strength of the quake and the structure of the housing in the area. "We are estimating a death toll between 500 and 1,000," Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli observatory, told a televised news conference Sunday. Turkey's deputy prime minister said around 45 buildings have collapsed in the town of Ercis and the city of Van. Ercis sits on a geological fault line. "A lot of buildings collapsed, many people killed, but we don't know the number. We are waiting for emergency help, its very urgent," Zulfukar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis district, which was hit badly, told the news broadcaster NTV. "We need tents urgently and rescue teams. We don't have any ambulances, and we only have one hospital. We have many killed and injured," he said. Emergency teams were trying to rescue people believed to be trapped in a building in Van, near the Iranian border, state-run news agency Anatolian said. It said 50 injured people had been taken to hospital in Van, but did not give details on how serious their injuries were. The Kandilli Observatory said the earthquake struck at 10.41 GMT and was 5km (3 miles) deep. The U.S. Geological Survey earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6. Television pictures showed damaged buildings and vehicles, crushed under falling masonry, and panicked residents wandering in the streets. Turkish media said phone lines and electricity had been cut off. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was heading to Van to see the damage, media reported. Aftershocks continued after the initial quake, whose epicentre was at the village of Tabanli, north of Van city, the agency said. In Hakkari, a town around 100km (60 miles) south of the city of Van in southeastern Turkey, a building could be felt swaying for around 10 seconds during the quake. There was no immediate sign of any casualties or damage in Hakkari, around two and half hours drive through the mountains from Van, around 20km from the epicentre. Major geological faultlines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in northwest Turkey. Two people were killed and 79 injured in May when an earthquake shook Simav in northwest Turkey. Video links ...... http://youtu.be/DzIvNVVmyRs ........ http://youtu.be/neLMUUopUXo ![]() Most important Earthquake Data: Magnitude : 6.4 UTC Time : Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 10:41:21 UTC Local time at epicenter : Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 01:41:21 PM at epicenter Depth (Hypocenter) : 47 km Geo-location(s) : 19 km N Van (pop 371,713) 26 km SE Ercis (pop 91,915) Aftershocks Update 12:53 UTC (2 hours 15 minutes after the earthquake) : 2011-10-23 12:42 5 4.2 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:34 12 3.6 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:30 5 3.7 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:23 5 3.8 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:21 7 4.0 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:20 8 4.3 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:17 18 4.1 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:13 7 3.9 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 12:03 7 4.3 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 11:32 17 5.9 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 11:19 7 4.2 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 11:16 7 3.6 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 11:10 8 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 11:00 10 4.2 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 10:56 50 5.6 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 10:53 7 5.1 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 10:52 7 4.8 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 10:48 2 4.9 EASTERN TURKEY 2011-10-23 10:41 10 7.3 EASTERN TURKEY Update: – 33 aftershocks between 2.9 and 5.6 at the moment - 30 people killed and 80 people injured so far in Ercis alone. - A 9 year old child’s body was found under the rubble of a collapsed building in Bitlis : This is a Turkish newspaper with a number of videos and very good reporting. http://video.haberturk.com |
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| Audi-Tek | October 24 2011, 02:03 PM Post #2 |
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Turkey quake toll exceeds 260 dead, hundreds missing 24 Oct 2011 11:30 Source: reuters // Reuters * At least 264 dead, more than 1,000 injured, hundreds missing * PM Erdogan's fears worst for villagers in mud-walled houses * Rescuers dig for survivors with bare hands, shovels (Adds quotes, detail, updates toll) By Jonathon Burch and Seda Sezer ERCIS, Turkey, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Rescuers clawed through rubble on Monday to free people trapped by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 264 people and wounded more than 1,000 in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey. Hundreds more were feared dead, as Turkey's most powerful quake in a decade toppled remote villages of mud brick houses. As some desperate survivors cried for help from beneath mounds of smashed concrete and twisted metal, earthmoving machines and soldiers joined the search after Sunday's 7.2 magnitude quake struck the city of Van and the town of Ercis, some 100 km (60 miles) to the north. "Be patient, be patient," rescuers told a whimpering boy, pinned under a concrete slab with the lifeless hand of an adult, with a wedding ring, visible just in front of his face. A Reuters photographer saw a woman and her daughter being freed from beneath a concrete slab in the wreckage of a building that had once been six storeys tall. "I'm here, I'm here," the woman, named Fidan, called out in a hoarse voice. Talking to her regularly while working for more than two hours to find a way through, rescuers cut through the slab, first sighting the daughter's foot, before freeing them. Standing by a wrecked four-storey building one woman told a rescue worker she had spoken to her friend, Hatice Hasimoglu,on her mobile phone six hours after the quake trapped her inside. "She's my friend and she called me to say that she's alive and she's stuck in the rubble near the stairs of the building," said her friend, a fellow teacher. "She told me she was wearing red pyjamas," she said, standing with distraught relatives begging the rescue workers to hurry. In Van, an ancient city of one million on a lake ringed by snow-capped mountains, cranes shifted rubble from a collapsed six-storey apartment block where 70 people were feared trapped. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan flew swiftly to Van to assess the scale of the disaster in a quake-prone area that is a hotbed of activity for Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants. Erdogan said he feared for the fate of villages which rescue teams had yet to reach. "Because the buildings are made of mud brick, they are more vulnerable to quakes. I must say that almost all buildings in such villages are destroyed," he told an overnight news conference in Van. NTV broadcaster quoted Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin as saying the death toll had reached 264. Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay, speaking in Van, said more than 1,300 were injured. The interior minister said hundreds more were unaccounted for, many believed buried under rubble. Newspapers said trauma had been piled on trauma in the southeast, where a PKK attack killed 24 Turkish soldiers in Hakkari, south of Van, last week. "Homeland of Pain. Yesterday terrorism, today earthquake," said Radikal newspaper. Erdogan earlier flew by helicopter to Ercis, a town of 100,000 that was harder hit than Van, with 55 buildings flattened, including a student dormitory. "We don't know how many people are in the ruins of collapsed buildings," he said. At one crumpled four-storey building in Ercis, firemen from the major southeastern city of Diyarbakir tried to reach four missing children. Aid workers carried two black body bags, one apparently containing a child, to an ambulance. An old woman wrapped in a headscarf walked alongside sobbing. A distressed man paced back and forth before running towards the rescue workers on top of the rubble. "That's my nephew's house," he sobbed as workers tried to hold him back. A group of women, some with faces covered by headscarves, wept as they looked on under a chilly blue sky. COLD NIGHT IN OPEN Nearby, aid teams handed out parcels of bread and food, while people wrapped in blankets huddled around open fires after spending a cold night on the streets. Rescue efforts were hampered by power outages after the quake toppled electricity cables to towns and villages across much of the barren Anatolian steppe near the Iranian border. It also damaged the main Van-Ercis road, CNN Turk reported. More than 200 aftershocks have jolted the region since the quake struck for around 25 seconds at 1041 GMT on Sunday. "I just felt the whole earth moving and I was petrified. It went on for ages. And the noise, you could hear this loud, loud noise," said Hakan Demirtas, 32, a builder who was working on construction site in Van at the time. "My house is ruined," he said, sitting on a low wall after spending the night in the open. "I am still afraid, I'm in shock. I have no future, there is nothing I can do." The Red Crescent said about 100 experts had reached the earthquake zone to coordinate rescue and relief operations. Some 5,000 tents and 11,000 blankets, stoves and food were being distributed and mobile kitchens were set up to feed those made homeless. Sniffer dogs had joined the quest for survivors. At Van airport, a Turkish Airlines cargo plane unloaded aid materials onto waiting military vehicles for distribution. Workers set up a tent city in the Ercis sports stadium, as ambulances, sirens wailing, ferried the injured to hospital. Dogan news agency reported that 24 people were pulled from the rubble alive in the two hours after midnight. Erdogan later returned to Ankara for a cabinet meeting to discuss the response to the disaster. He said Turkey could cope by itself, but thanked nations offering help, including Armenia and Israel, which both have strained relations with Ankara. U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply saddened by the loss of life and devastation. "He expresses his heartfelt sympathies to the government and people of Turkey at this time of loss and suffering," a U.N. statement said. Major geological fault lines cross Turkey, where small tremors occur almost daily. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in the northwest. The quake had no impact on Turkish financial markets as they opened on Monday. Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said Van benefit from tax exemptions. In Van, construction worker Sulhattin Secen, 27, said he had first mistaken the quake's rumble for a car crash. "Then the ground beneath me started moving up and down as if I was standing in water. May God help us. It's like life has stopped. What are people going to do?" (Additional reporting by Ece Toksabay in Istanbul; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore, Ibon Villelabeitia and Daren Butler; Editing by Alistair Lyon) |
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| Audi-Tek | November 10 2011, 02:03 AM Post #3 |
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Earthquake hits eastern Turkey.![]() A collapsed building after Turkey's latest earthquake in the province of Van. ![]() Van Turkey BAYRAM OTELİ - Aftershock November 9 ![]() Edremit Turkey - image courtesy tatilyerlerimiz.com A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has caused a six-storey hotel and other buildings to collapse in eastern Turkey, trapping people inside, according to media reports, two weeks after a strong quake in the region killed around 600 people. State-run TRT television said the quake brought down the hotel as well as some buildings that had been damaged in the earlier quake in the province of Van. TV footage showed residents and rescuers trying to lift debris to evacuate people believed to be trapped under the hotel in Van's provincial capital. Sky Turk television said the hotel was being used by journalists and aid workers who were in the city. It was not known how many people were trapped inside. At least one person was brought out of the building alive, NTV television said. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake measured 5.7-magnitude. NTV television said rescue teams were being sent to the region from the capital Ankara and other areas, a week after workers had begun clearing debris from the earlier quake. About 1,400 aftershocks have rocked the region since the 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the province on 23 October. Many residents had been living in tents, despite the cold, too afraid to return to their homes. At least 2,000 buildings were destroyed in the stronger quake and authorities declared another 3,700 buildings unfit for habitation. Latest Updates.. Update : This earthquake has killed at least three people and collapsed 21 buildings including a hotel in eastern Turkey. More people are believed to have been trapped under the rubble. SAR (Search and Rescue) teams are trying to find possible survivors. Update : Nine planes carrying almost 300 additional rescue personnel have been dispatched to the quake region. Update : Koeri puts the epicenter right on the town of Edremit. It is unclear what effects the earthquake has had there in this town on the outskirts of Van located on Lake Van. Update : Conflicting reports that the hotel was actually 6 storeys high. More will be known also when light breaks on Van, but this will disrupt the earthquake operations significantly in the area. Reports of gas leaks and electricity outages have also come to fruition. (ER – the picture we found on the Internet shows 4 storeys) Update : Turkish Red Crescent has sent 15000 tents to the region. Obviously to help with residents who will be afraid to return to houses, and those houses that have moved from slightly damaged to severely damaged. Update : The name of the hotel is the Bayram Oteli on the following street: Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak Caddesi and 11 people have been rescued so far from the rubble. Update : Around 150-200 people were in the hotel at the time of collapse, typically unfortunately the death toll from a masonry structure (if reports are correct) are typically around 25-30% of that, which could mean that around 60 people could be killed. However, since search and rescue staff are already in Van, hopefully many more trapped people can be rescued than is usually the case. Update : All our written reports on the Van Ercis earthquake can be found here. Update : Yesterday, another M 5.7 aftershock struck the area Update : The USGS Pager theoretocal human impact model gives 1-10 fatalities, and 10-100 million dollars damage, however it is not setup for aftershocks and the damage expected Update : The earthquake occurred South of Van, meaning that the possibility for a large earthquake right by Van is also there Update : A lot of Buildings were mud-brick, and one of the hotels destroyed had 4 storeys. Update : The number of dead and injured is at present unknown, but quite a few expected from the hotel Update : 20 houses destroyed so far. This is a very large aftershock, and will nearly cause ground motions in Van greater than the first event given the epicenter if correct. Update : First reports are telling us that many people have been trapped under the hotel wreckage Update : Following the theoretical models of USGS 1000 people will have experienced a severe MMI VIII shaking. 15,000 people a every strong shaking and 343,000 people a VI strong shaking. 454,000 people a moderate shaking. Update : The epicenter is just next to the Van lake, exactly the location of the small lake town of Edremit. Update : In addition to the earlier 18 collapsed houses we are sorry to tell that also 2 hotels and a school have collapsed. Update : This aftershock is one of the many powerful shocks which started after the cruel Van Ercis earthquake which occurred in the morning of October 23 and which left more than 600 people killed. Update : According to KOERI, the Turkish seismological agency, the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.6 at a depth of 5 km. Update : The main reason why this aftershock is damaging is the already damaged houses and the extremely shallow depth Update : 18 houses collapsed as a result of this cruel aftershock The epicenter was almost below Edremit, a city with 2000 people. It is an extremely old town which predates the Christian Era. In the 10th century Edremit was known as a feudal city with a population of 12000. Most important Earthquake Data: Magnitude : 5.7 UTC Time : Wednesday, November 09, 2011 at 19:23:35 UTC Local time at epicenter : Wednesday, November 09, 2011 at 09:23:35 PM at epicenter Depth (Hypocenter) : 4.8 km Geo-location(s) : 16 km (9 miles) S of Van, Turkey 91 km (56 miles) NNW of Hakkari, Turkey 123 km (76 miles) NE of Sirnak, Turkey |
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