Turkey and Syria are shaking due to the extremely violent earthquake recorded in the night between Sunday 5th and Monday 6th February. In these images posted on social media, one of the many damaged buildings in Sanliurfa can be seen collapsing at any moment. The tremendous earthquake that hit southern Turkey and involved Syria and other countries in the region caused hundreds of deaths, but the toll is dramatically temporary. The death toll could reach 10,000 people, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said quoted by CNN. According to their estimates, the USGS stated that there is a 47% chance of reaching 1,000 to 10,000 people, while there is a 27% chance of reaching 100 to 10,000 people, 1,000, and a 20% chance of reaching between 10,000 and 100,000 people. USGS estimates are derived from models based on historical earthquakes in the region, the population exposed to the strongest tremors, and the vulnerability of structures in the hardest-hit areas.
“Major damage and casualties are likely and the disaster is widespread,” the USGS, the US earthquake agency, said in a report after the 7.9 magnitude quake. “The population of this region resides in structures that are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes, although there are some resistant structures”, reads the report, which also estimates economic losses between 1 billion and 10 billion dollars, which could reach 2% of the Turkish GDP.
Source: IL Tempo
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