Last week’s catastrophe affected an space wider than your complete territory of many nations on this planet, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
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Experts the world over have described final week’s twin earthquakes in Türkiye as an “exceptional natural phenomenon,” the nation’s president has mentioned.
“With the consensus of all experts in the world, the earthquakes of Kahramanmaras are considered an exceptional natural phenomenon with their magnitude, destructiveness, and the fact that they occurred back to back,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned after a Cabinet assembly on the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) within the capital Ankara.
He underlined that “serious” destruction had occurred within the 10 provinces worst hit by the magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes that shook the area on February 6.
Erdogan additionally mentioned that a minimum of 35,418 individuals had died as a result of earthquakes, each of which had been centred within the province of Kahramanmaras, affecting greater than 13 million individuals.
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“The disaster, which took place in an area wider than the entire territory of many countries in the world, occurred at such a short distance from the surface of 7 kilometres (4.3 miles), multiplying the destruction (it caused) compared to other major earthquakes in history.
“These successive earthquakes launched power equal to lots of of probably the most highly effective atomic bombs,” he added.
Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Malatya, Hatay, Adana, Diyarbakir, Kilis, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa were also hit hard by the two massive tremors that struck within the space of 10 hours.
Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the earthquakes.
Erdogan said that a total of 13,208 injured were still receiving treatment in hospitals.
“According to the preliminary findings, 211,000 houses in 47,000 buildings within the earthquake zone had been discovered to have been destroyed, severely broken or essential to be demolished,” he mentioned.
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