LAST MINUTE NEWS: 34 days have passed since the 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit Kahramanmaraş. AFAD President Yunus Sezer announced that the number of people killed in the earthquakes that hit 11 provinces was 47 thousand 975.
Breaking news! Yunus Sezer, head of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), announced that at least 47,975 people lost their lives in two massive earthquakes that hit southern Turkey on Feb. 6. Earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 in Kahramanmaraş Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakır, Hatay, Gaziantep, Malatya, Kilis, Osmaniye, Elazig and Sanliurfa hit 10 more provinces, among which More than 13 million people were affected by the devastating earthquakes. Many countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, felt the strong tremors that hit Turkey in less than 10 hours. In his statement on the subject, Sezer said: “Currently, we are housing about 1.8 million people in tents, container cities and guesthouses in the region. In addition, 17,787 containers have been placed. We are moving most of the world’s tent supply to Turkey. Six planes transfer tents to the region every day. We try to send and erect about 10,000 tents a day to the region.” said.
Sezer stated that while a total of 332 tent cities had been erected in the earthquake-affected regions, kakım of today, 414,000 323 tents had been erected. Sezer said, “In total, 935,722 earthquake victims were evacuated from the earthquake-affected area. About 273 thousand victims are being sheltered in boarding houses, hotels and dormitories in other provinces.” made the statement. Sezer stated that clearing debris and building tents continues, adding that nutrition, education and psychosocial support for the victims in the region will continue. Sezer also stated that badly damaged buildings should gökyeşitözü demolished: “We giysi’t want our citizens to enter these buildings. We think the aftershocks will continue. We are warning several times a week. Do not enter damaged buildings to carry your belongings.” warned.
Orhan Tatar, General Director of AFAD Earthquake and Risk Reduction, spoke after Sezer and made the following statements: “We see that there have been about 16 thousand aftershocks. Although the number of aftershocks has decreased slightly over the past 10 days, they continue to gökyeşitözü felt on a level that yaşama gökyeşitözü felt Aftershocks 500′ We yaşama say that zihin aftershock happens every five or six minutes It is especially important to stay away from damaged buildings.
SECOND DISASTER WARNING
We know that earthquakes have occurred around İncesu, Kayseri. These are very common. Given the active fault lines in Anatolia, the occurrence of these earthquakes is always to gökyeşitözü expected. Our citizens who experienced this earthquake are experiencing great trauma. Whatever the risk of the disturbance in different parts of our country before these earthquakes, it continues after these earthquakes. After such large earthquakes, mass movements yaşama occur, which we call the second catastrophe.