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Death toll now reported as 8700
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RTH10260 wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:34 am Death toll now reported as 8700
What a nightmare. And they are stilling to try to find people.
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Just saw a total of over 11,000. That's likely going to close to double before it's over. :crying:
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One of the first reports I saw mentioned that previous earthquakes had weakened buildings so that the most recent earthquake ended up being more destructive.
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AndyinPA wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:14 am Just saw a total of over 11,000. That's likely going to close to double before it's over. :crying:
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Turkey’s president has rejected growing criticism of the authorities’ response to Monday’s huge earthquakes, as the death toll passed 15,000 across Turkey and Syria and rescuers continued to pull survivors from the freezing rubble.

Making his first visit to Turkey’s worst-affected region since the 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude quakes hit within hours of each other, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan acknowledged early problems with Turkey’s response but said it was now working well.
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Note w/o link:

There was also a mini-tsunami triggered by the quake. Resulted in some waves amounting to the height of a storm surge, locally flooded some low lieing coast areas ankle high.
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Rescuers desperately digging through the rubble since Monday’s earthquakes in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria were already racing against time to find trapped survivors. But the gravity and urgency were exacerbated as freezing temperatures, rain, snow and wind chills blanketed some of the worst-hit areas.
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In the hours after a 7.8-magnitude quake Monday morning, temperatures hit lows of around 37 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 degrees Celsius) around the epicenter in southern Turkey. A cold rainstorm also passed through that day. In the days that followed, temperatures dipped, and stayed, below freezing.

Those conditions have made the aftermath an emergency within an emergency — increasing the dangers for those trapped under the rubble, for survivors without adequate shelter, and for rescuers working long hours digging.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: Freezing weather adds to despair as quake toll passes 21,000

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More than 21,000 people are now known to have died in Monday's earthquakes in Turkey and Syria - though the UN warns the disaster's full extent is still unclear.

Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading more than four days since the first quake.

Tens of thousands of people have spent a freezing fourth night in makeshift shelters, after losing their homes.

Turkey's president called the quake "the disaster of the century".

A major international relief effort is gathering pace. On Thursday the World Bank pledged $1.78bn (£1.38bn) in aid to Turkey including immediate finance for rebuilding basic infrastructure and to support those affected by the earthquakes.

Another donation came from the US, which pledged a package of $85m to both countries.

Meanwhile, the efforts of 100,000 or more rescue personnel on the ground are being hampered by logistical hurdles including vehicle shortages and devastated roads.

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the full extent of the catastrophe was still "unfolding before our eyes", especially in Syria where a long-running civil war has devastated the country.

On Thursday, the first UN humanitarian aid crossed the border into north-western Syria through Idlib's Bab al-Hawa crossing.

The crossing is the only way UN aid can reach the region without travelling through areas controlled by Syrian government forces.

Mr Guterres promised more help was on its way and he urged the UN Security Council to allow supplies to be delivered through more than one border crossing.

"This is the moment of unity, it's not a moment to politicise or to divide but it is obvious that we need massive support," he said.

Munira Mohammad, a mother of four who fled Aleppo in Syria after the quake, told Reuters on Thursday that her family was in desperate need of heating and more supplies, saying: "Last night we couldn't sleep because it was so cold. It is very bad."

The White Helmets rescue group said the only UN convoy that reached the region did not contain specialised equipment to free people trapped beneath the rubble.

Warnings of second disaster

Officials said on Friday that 18,342 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the more than 17,000 killed when a similar quake hit northwest Turkey in 1999.

An earlier update from Syria had put the toll there at 3,377.

The tremor ranks among the most deadly natural disasters of the century - surpassing others such as the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Resat Gozlu, a survivor in south-eastern Turkey who is now living on the floor of a sports complex with his family, said rescue workers did not arrive until three days after the quake.

He said many remain trapped under the rubble and others died of hypothermia.

"If this continues there could be serious health issues and illness," he told the BBC.

The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier warned a second humanitarian disaster will strike unless survivors can get access to shelter, food, water and medicine "very fast".

The WHO's Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Kluge, told the BBC the organisation's staff in Turkey's Gaziantep were sleeping in cars because "there's still hundreds and hundreds of aftershocks".

Dr Kluge said communities in Syria depended on water reservoirs, which were the first to fall. He said the reservoirs need to be replaced or the country faces cholera outbreaks - which he said was an issue before the earthquake.



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Syria earthquake aid held up as millions suffer in freezing conditions
One week on from deadly earthquakes vital aid is being held up by disputes between government and rebel groups, as well as wider diplomatic quarrels

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Mon 13 Feb 2023 05.03 GMT

The US has called on all parties on the ground in Syria to immediately grant humanitarian assistance to those in need, after last week’s earthquake and major aftershocks that have killed at least 33,000 people.

“All humanitarian assistance must be permitted to move through all border crossings,” a spokesperson for the White House national security council said on Sunday.

The UN has said at least 870,000 people urgently need hot meals across Turkey and Syria, and in Syria alone up to 5.3 million people are reportedly homeless. Turkey has said 80,000 people are in hospital and more than 1 million are in temporary shelters.

Tens of thousands of rescue workers continue to scour flattened neighbourhoods despite subzero winter weather. A dwindling number of survivors are still being extracted from the rubble more than a week after the quake hit.

Of the 3,500 deaths reported in Syria the bulk have been in the north-west of the country, in areas predominantly under rebel control.

The region has so far received little assistance as frontlines with the government are sealed off and only a single border crossing links it to Turkey to the north. The Syrian government last week said it was willing to send aid to the northern zone.

Washington called on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to grant immediate access to humanitarian assistance, without exception.

A UN spokesperson said on Sunday that earthquake aid from government-held parts of Syria into opposition-controlled territory has also been held up by “approval issues” with a hardline group that controls much of the territory.




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More than 37,000 people are dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Feb. 6, according to officials.

The pre-dawn quake was centered in the town of Pazarcik in Turkey's southeastern Kahramanmaras province and was followed by several powerful aftershocks. Thousands of buildings were toppled on both sides of the border, and the death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched for survivors in the massive piles of rubble.
I heard on CNN this morning that they thought the eventual total could be close to 100,000, but I have no link for that.
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I guess they will continue for a few years to find remains while the rubble of buildings gets slowly removed. Removal will only happen if someone intends to redevlope a site.
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ISTANBUL — As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to defend his response to last Monday's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, videos from a few years back have emerged showing him hailing some of the housing projects that crumbled, killing thousands of people.

Critics say contractors were allowed to skip crucial safety regulations, increasing their profits but putting residents at risk.

The videos have fueled public outrage over slow efforts to help residents in the aftermath of the massive earthquake — the world's deadliest in over a decade — that killed more than 35,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, and left many injured and without a home, food or heating in the middle of winter.

In one video, taken during a campaign stop ahead of Turkey's March 2019 local elections, Erdogan listed some of his government's top achievements — including new housing for the city of Kahramanmaras, also known as Maras, near the epicenter of last week's quake.

"We solved the problem of 144,156 citizens of Maras with zoning amnesty," Erdogan said, using his term for the construction amnesties handed out to allow contractors to ignore the safety codes that had been put on the books specifically to make apartment blocks, houses and office buildings more resistant to earthquakes.
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The death toll from the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has now surpassed 37,000. Tens of thousands of people are still missing, and social media feeds are awash with examples of newly built residential complexes that have collapsed like sandcastles, burying occupants under the rubble. Many of these buildings were sold as luxury housing “compliant with the latest earthquake safety standards”.

Some of the contractors responsible have tried to flee Turkey. Warrants have been issued for more than 130 people over alleged breaches of safety codes, and several construction company owners have been arrested. Turkey’s justice minister, Bekir Bozdağ, vowed that “all those who are at fault will be held accountable”.

But this kind of greed and blatant profiteering are not solitary crimes. These residential complexes could not have been built without state-issued building permits and licences, without the approving signatures of nominally independent building inspectors, and without the necessary reports from laboratories doing quality control of construction materials. They could not have gone ahead without the government’s many changes to construction and real estate legislation, all meant to facilitate the bloated growth of a destructive and insatiable construction sector.

This is not the first time in Turkey that destructive earthquakes have exposed a corrupt, incapable government. However, the AKP has been in power for over 20 years. It had the time and the means to tackle a notoriously fraudulent construction sector, rein in irresponsible contractors and provide safe, healthy housing for all citizens in an earthquake-prone country. It chose not to.

Instead, it focused on massive infrastructure and construction projects as the main motor of economic growth, no matter the societal and environmental costs. From 2004 on, the government passed substantive legal and institutional reforms in the fields of construction, real estate, local governance and housing finance. This included new extensive powers for metropolitan and district municipalities to implement urban renewal projects, to establish partnerships with private companies and to sell publicly owned land and assets to private developers.
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Now go and find in Turkey the experts that will painstakenly inspect each collapsed building and determine the deficiencies and have them testify in yourt. Find the experts that will inspect the ruins and determine from the rubble the deficiencies of building materials used and have them testify in court. Testify against architects and construction companies and suppliers. Will.not.happen.
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True..

but there may be a fair few show trials to divert the anger..

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Turkey hit by two more powerful earthquakes two weeks after disaster
Three killed and 213 injured, government says, after quakes of 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude shake southern province of Hatay

Ruth Michaelson in Istanbul
Tue 21 Feb 2023 07.12 GMT

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake and a second measuring 5.8 have hit Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, terrifying those left in a region devastated by twin earthquakes two weeks ago.

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, said that at least three people were killed and 213 wounded by the latest quakes, after a large government hospital in the city of İskenderun in the north of Hatay province declared it was evacuating patients.

The quake was felt in neighbouring Syria, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported more than 500 injured in the north-west.

One person was reported dead in the town of Samandag in Hatay by Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority AFAD. Residents there said more buildings collapsed but most of the town had already fled after the initial earthquakes. Mounds of debris and discarded furniture lined the dark, abandoned streets.

The latest quakes, less powerful than the 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that tore a path of destruction through southern Turkey and northern Syria on 6 February, threaten yet more devastation in a region where many people have fled their destroyed homes for the safety of other towns and villages outside the quake zone.





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Turkey is rocked by powerful 5.5 magnitude earthquake just weeks after it shattered by catastrophe that left 50,000 dead and more than a million homeless

By LAUREN HAUGHEY
PUBLISHED: 11:44 GMT, 25 February 2023 | UPDATED: 12:12 GMT, 25 February 2023

A powerful earthquake has struck Turkey again today amid the nation's struggle to recover from a series of disasters this month.

It has been reported that a 5.2 magnitude earthquake has taken a blow to central Turkey, just days after two further quakes hit the border near Syria.

At 10.27am, the alarm was raised by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre that an earthquake struck the area at a depth of 10km.

It comes at a time when both Turkey and Syria had begun work to reconstruct homes for the millions that were displaced by the quakes.

More than 50,000 have been killed as a result of the continued destruction, but it is unclear how many have died as a direct result of today's incident.




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Indonesia: Merapi volcano erupts, raising alarm

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The nearly 3,000 meter-high Merapi volcano is among Indonesia's most active. Its last eruption in 2010 killed over 300 people.

Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupted on Saturday, ejecting hot clouds and lava flows up to seven kilometers, the country's disaster management agency said.

Located in the special Yogyakarta region, the volcano is among Indonesia's most active.

How serious is the eruption?
The agency warned residents in the nearby community to halt any activities in the danger zone. It added that no immediate casualties were reported.

The zone's parameters range between three to seven kilometers' (4.5 mile) radius from the crater. The agency posted a video on Twitter showing the eruption.

Residents were not immediately evacuated, an official at the local monitoring post said in the agency's statement. He added that it would recommend residents evacuate if the volcanic coverage exceeds a seven-kilometer distance.

The volcanic ash affected at least eight villages near the volcano, another officer at a Merapi observation post said in the statement.




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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least thirteen people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a magnitude of about 6.8 that was centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city. Twelve of the victims died in Ecuador, while one died in Peru.

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso told reporters the earthquake had “without a doubt ... generated alarm in the population.” Meanwhile, Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretary Cristian Torres in a radio interview said 11 of the victims died in the coastal state of El Oro and one in the highlands state of Azuay.
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‘You can’t see anything’, major volcanic eruption in Russia’s far east releases vast ash cloud

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An area in Russia’s far east was coated with a mix of snow and ash after the Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula erupted at midnight on April 11, 2023. The ash cloud generated blocked sunlight the morning after the eruption, before settling across a wide area around the volcano.

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It's Mount St. Helens day!! USGS Volcanoes has been posting images and remarks on their FB page.


Keith and Dorothy Stoffel are in Yakima for a meeting. They decide to charter a plane to see Mount St. Helens - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Cessna circles a serene crater, permission granted to fly in restricted airspace.

Unexpectantly, a mile-long east-west fracture pops open just north of the crater. The whole mass north of it begins to vibrate, ripple, and churn. Huge east-west waves undulates like agitated jello. Ten seconds later, the great bulge north of the fracture sinks north—a gigantic mass detaching from the mountain. The steep scarp grows taller by the second. A second gigantic landslide glides on a second detachment plane—this slide takes the crater. A thousand feet below the airplane, the mile-wide face of the mountain is flowing, picking up speed. Below, a huge explosion blasts up out of the slip plane. They feel and hear nothing. Gray and frothy clouds billow beneath, blocking the view of Spirit Lake.

The enormity of it all suddenly dawns.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-19/ ... /102369894

Tsunami warnings have been issued for Australia's Lord Howe Island and countries in the South Pacific following a magnitude-7.7 earthquake south-east of the Loyalty Islands in the French territory of New Caledonia.

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The BOM warns of the possibility of dangerous rips, waves, and strong ocean currents for Lord Howe Island
Tsunami warnings have also been issued for Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia
The BOM says there is no threat to mainland Australia

Potential tsunami threats were issued for Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) said.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued a warning of a marine threat for Lord Howe Island, off Australia's east coast, after the earthquake on Friday afternoon.

"So far, a 22-centimetre tsunami wave has been observed near New Caledonia," the BOM said in its warning notice on Friday afternoon.
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