Earthquake areas in Turkey
In the recent months, Turkey has witnessed a group of earthquakes and tremors, which were distributed in separate regions of the country, because it is located on a deep seismic fault line, concentrated mainly in the Sea of Marmara and in northern and eastern Turkey.
In September 2019, an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Istanbul, followed by aftershocks, which exceeded 100, the strongest of 4.1, and the Sea of Marmara was the epicenter of this earthquake with a depth of 6.99 km and 21.68 km from ” Silivri”.
And the Istanbul Municipality announced, according to “Al-Jazeera Net”, that 2864 shelters were distributed across 39 districts of the city, and Al-Jazeera quoted Istanbul Mayor as saying: “More than 20% of the city’s buildings will be damaged if it is struck by an earthquake of 7.5 on the Richter scale”.
In January, a group of tremors with a magnitude of more than 4.5 struck the capital, Ankara, Manisa and Mugla, and an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck Elazig and Malatya and was felt by residents of the southern regions of Turkey, as well as killing eighteen people and losing thirty Others, and thirty aftershocks followed, and then Turkish President “Recep Tayyip Erdogan” tweeted on his Twitter page saying: “We stand by our people through all our institutions, especially the government agency for disasters and the Red Crescent”.
It is noteworthy that Turkey witnessed a number of earthquakes throughout its history, the worst of which was the 1999 earthquake that killed seventeen thousand people near Izmit, 105 km from Istanbul, and its damage included about 285 buildings.
At a time when scientists speculate that a major earthquake will occur in Istanbul in the coming years, Turkey has been making a continuous effort since 1999 to raise the capacity of its buildings to withstand and spread behavioral awareness during earthquakes, as experts recommend gathering family members near the entrances to doors and away from windows and Glass and chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and closing the electrical and gas outlets.
Religious affairs in Istanbul have aimed to calm the people down by dedicating the last Friday sermon of January to calm the souls and talk about earthquakes and prayers to God with supplication and repentance as it happens.
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