Türkiye, notably its massive cities within the west, faces the fixed dangers of earthquakes due to a number of fault strains crisscrossing the nation.
An unlucky tectonic location and a traumatizing historical past of lethal earthquakes have inculcated the concern of tremors in Türkiye’s on a regular basis life. From a really younger age, Turks are taught to sort out earthquakes and lots of take sure precautions beforehand akin to making ready an emergency bag and establishing security zones at house or work.
Last yr, at the very least one earthquake with a magnitude over 4.0 happened each three days in Türkiye and its closest surrounding, learn the report shared by Anadolu Agency (AA) on Tuesday.
Associate professor Bülent Özmen from the Gazi University Earthquake Engineering Application and Research Center shared the statistics on the variety of earthquakes that shook the nation in 2022 and offered particulars explaining the earthquakes’ magnitude, prevalence time, location, depth, latitude, and longitude.
He additionally briefed about earthquakes that happened all over the world, citing that in 2022, 15,438 earthquakes of magnitude 4 and above shook the planet.
Özmen informed AA, “There were 117 earthquakes with magnitudes between 6 and 6.9, 1,603 earthquakes of magnitudes between 5 and 5.9, and 13,707 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 4.9 that took place worldwide.”
Recalling that the most important earthquakes of 2022 struck Papua New Guinea on Sept. 10 and Mexico on Sept. 19, each with a magnitude of seven.6, Özmen stated: “The earthquake that claimed most lives is the 6-magnitude earthquake that occurred on June 22 in Afghanistan.”
At least 1,163 individuals died and over 6,000 others had been injured all through jap Afghanistan and western Pakistan, making it the deadliest earthquake of 2022 and the deadliest in Afghanistan since 1998.
Meanwhile, Özmen additionally said that earthquake exercise in Türkiye was monitored day and evening by 1,143 earthquake recording stations working underneath the nation’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).
Touching upon the examination and analysis of the necessary earthquake actions throughout the nation and in its instant environment performed by the AFAD in 2022, Özmen stated that 20,277 earthquakes had been recorded in Türkiye.
Of the earthquakes that occurred in Türkiye, 128 quakes had been recorded with over 4 magnitudes, 113 of them had been between 4 and 5, 14 of magnitude 5 and 6, and one earthquake was recorded with a magnitude between 6-7,” he added.
The newest earthquake, measuring magnitude 5.9, in Düzce province on Nov. 23, 2022, frightened residents and awoke recollections of the 1999 earthquake that had hit the identical province.
