Turkey earthquakes

Economists say those structural weaknesses in the economy will only get worse because of the quake and could determine the course of presidential and ...

The president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, rejected the recent IAEA report, which detected particles of uranium enriched to 83.7% at the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran, saying there has been ‘“no deviation” in Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities. It also wore a nemes on its head, the striped cloth headdress traditionally worn by pharaohs of ancient Egypt, with a cobra-shaped end or “uraeus.” On Wednesday, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News reported that Shahriar Heydari, a member of parliament, said that “nearly 900 students” from across the country had been poisoned so far, citing an unnamed, “reliable source.” The additional monitoring is set to start “very, very soon,” said Grossi, with an IAEA team arriving within a few days to begin reinstalling the equipment at several sites. According to the OECD, the areas impacted in that quake accounted for [a third of the country’s GDP](https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/233456804045.pdf?expires=1677230445&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=88F40DE3038C17967DD4ECA8A3BD3D3E). “The magnitude of Turkey’s social earthquake is much greater than that of the tectonic one,” he said. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said that the poisoning of schoolgirls in recent months across Iran is an “unforgivable crime,” state-run news agency IRNA reported. A survey a month earlier found that a slim majority of voters [would not vote for Erdogan](https://twitter.com/metropoll/status/1606237217709559810) if an election were held on that day. “Economic growth would slow down at first but I don’t expect a recessionary threat due to the earthquake,” said Selva Demiralp, a professor of economics at Koc University in Istanbul. “However, once worsening economic fundamentals push more people below the poverty line, the possibility of defection increases.” When asked in 2020, Erdogan said the money “ That gives the government room to spend.

Geologists knew decades ago that a quake would strike southeastern Turkey, but precise prediction is still the stuff of science fiction.

“The Turkey earthquake to me is, of course, a complete tragedy,” he says. Mustafa Erdik, a retired civil engineer at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and president of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation, agrees that this was the case — arguing that ignorance, incompetence and implicit collusion between architects, inspectors and builders were at fault. McCloskey’s model, for example, anticipated the location of the recent Turkey earthquake, but the shaking started on a much smaller branch of the fault and then spilt over to the main part, a pattern that Stein finds baffling. California, for example, which is home to the massive San Andreas fault, has implemented the beginnings of an early-warning system that relies on networks of seismometers to detect the very start of a quake. The modelling suggested that a region of the fault line south of Kahramanmaraş — the precise location and length of the fault that ruptured on 6 February — was at a heightened risk of giving way at some point in the future Then, in 2008, Parsons and his colleagues published a forecast following the Wenchuan earthquake with the intention of later evaluating the model’s performance [6](#ref-CR6). And in 2008, Shinji Toda from the Geological Survey of Japan in Tsukuba and his colleagues projected that the [Wenchuan earthquake earlier that year in China](https://www.nature.com/articles/459153a) would increase the stress of three adjacent faults [4](#ref-CR4). [7](#ref-CR7), estimates that the method has been used in 30,000 papers to explain two-thirds of our planet’s recent aftershocks and progressive main shocks. This has happened time and time again in Turkey — a history that allowed McCloskey and his colleagues to map the stresses along one of its major quake sources, the East Anatolian fault. He found that 61% of the later quakes were associated with an increase in stress caused by the earlier ones In 2002, McCloskey (now a geophysicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK) and his colleagues used this technique to diagnose regions on the East Anatolian fault that were highly stressed. McCloskey’s work shows both the promise — and limitations — of the science of earthquake forecasting.

Northwest Syria left to face the earthquake disaster alone.

Ruins, rescues, rubble and hope a month on since the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria.

An excerpt from “After the Turkey-Syria Earthquakes, Rethinking Design on Shaky Ground” by Yun Fu, a design critic at Harvard Graduate School of ...

Today, with advice from a typical engineer and working well within the technical capacity of most construction teams, it is possible to build directly on top of a fault line and be relatively confident that the inhabitants would survive an earthquake, even if the building itself sustains some damage. This straightforward observation is a stronger indictment than it may initially seem, once one understands that the technical problem of building in earthquake regions is relatively well resolved in the contemporary world, akin to polio or famine. Some will be directly related to earthquakes and the reconstruction that follows, while others might be relevant to adjacent fields and the broader question of how to think and build on shaky ground.

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Under clouds of dust stirred up by excavators digging through the rubble from thousands of collapsed buildings in the ancient Turki.