Published February 23,2023
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Authorities have accomplished 80% of harm evaluation within the earthquake zone in southern Türkiye after the highly effective Feb. 6 tremors, the nation’s atmosphere minister stated on Thursday.
“The rest will be completed quickly in the coming days,” Murat Kurum, atmosphere, urbanization and local weather change minister, informed Anadolu’s Editors’ Desk within the quake-hit Adiyaman province.
A complete of seven,300 personnel are working to judge the harm attributable to the dual quakes which jolted greater than a dozen provinces, he stated.
Kurum additionally stated destruction or harm was reported in round 164,000 buildings and 518,000 particular person items.
The magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes, centered within the Kahramanmaras province, additionally shook Gaziantep, Hatay, Adiyaman, Malatya, Kilis, Adana, Diyarbakir, Osmaniye, Sanliurfa, and Elazig. Some 13.5 million individuals had been affected by the quakes.
Most of the destroyed buildings had been constructed earlier than 1999, Kurum stated, including no inspection was carried out in these buildings.
He additionally confirmed an in depth map of the fault line affecting the areas in Adiyaman, saying authorities “will examine ground quality for soil-related liquefaction” to grasp the large destruction within the metropolis heart.
More than 43,000 individuals have been killed within the lethal earthquakes in Türkiye, in accordance with the nation’s catastrophe administration company AFAD.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated Türkiye will start developing greater than 200,000 houses as early as March in areas devastated by the quakes and full the method inside a yr.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
