Turkey: about 865,000 people live in tents after earthquakes

About 865,000 people are currently in tents in southern Turkey, where earthquakes on the 6th caused 139,000 buildings to collapse and left at least 42,130 people dead and 115,000 injured, authorities said on Tuesday.

Of the 865,000 people currently living in tents, another 23,500 received prefabricated houses and 376,000 who are housed in institutions of the Ministry of Education or Sports, the president explained. TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdogan.

The head of state indicated that the destroyed buildings amount to almost half a million houses or offices.

Yesterday’s two new earthquakes, centered on the Mediterranean province of Hatay, the most tectonically devastated, highlighted the need for more shops so that no one could seek shelter in homes without collapsing, local authorities have warned.

Yesterday’s aftershocks caused at least six deaths and 18 serious injuries as buildings that were damaged but survived the first aftershock collapsed.

Erdogan noted that 2.5 million people in the region receive daily food from the Red Crescent, and promised to restore not only the affected urban centers, but also 70,000 houses in rural municipalities within a year.

Hatay, with 14,000 village houses to be rebuilt, and Kahramanmaras, with 12,000 houses, are the provinces hardest hit by the aftershocks.

Over 7000 aftershocks

According to the director of the seismographic department of AFAD, Orkhan Tatar, we can talk about three different earthquakes, two on February 6 with an epicenter in Kahramanmarash, magnitude 7.7 and 7.6, and one, independent of the other two, yesterday in Khatai. on the Mediterranean coast with a magnitude of 6.4.

In total, 7242 aftershocks of these three earthquakes were recorded, of which 41 had a magnitude of 5 to 6, that is, earthquakes with a magnitude Turkey they usually occur ten times a year and always cause panic, although they rarely become victims.

Another 450 aftershocks had a magnitude of 4 to 5, which occurs on average five times a month. Turkeyusually without harm, though always leaving some fear behind.

(EFE)

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