Posted on 10/23/2011 5:01:50 AM PDT by Fennie
A strong earthquake collapsed homes and buildings in eastern Turkey Sunday morning. Casualty report to come.
The mid-day earthquake was recorded at 7.3 on the Richter scale, according to a Greek news agency, and 6.6 by the Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Israel offers quake aid to Turkey
Granted for now but with their current slide to Sharia . . .
Magnitude Mw 7.3
Region EASTERN TURKEY
Date time 2011-10-23 10:41:22.0 UTC
Location 38.86 N ; 43.48 E
Depth 10 km
Distances 42 km N Van (pop 371,713 ; local time 13:41:22.7 2011-10-23)
21 km SE Ercis (pop 91,915 ; local time 13:41:22.7 2011-10-23)
Happened just after lunchtime.
Maybe I should have had a rim shot attached. My point was about just how wrong the AP gets everything.
Maybe I should have had a rim shot attached. My point was about just how wrong the AP gets everything.
Prayers for the injured, the loved ones of the injured and the dead and for all who are trying to rescue people.
Well, my 9-year-old did jump on the bed a little too hard. That might cause a big quake in Turkey.
There’s also the fact that so few Israelis are in Turkey these days. As if they knew about it in advance, just like the WTC on 9/11. Interesting...
No doubt they have a lever big enough to move Turkey, and told all their Mossad spies to stay out of the way while they caused an earth quack. Hmmmm...
When has the AP ever been right about anything?
>> ““We need urgent aid, we need medics,” he added.” <<
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But not from those disgusting Armenians...
I cite for example the historic city of Bam in southeast Iran, famous for its structures built from an adobe-like material. The 2003 earthquake resulted in a massive collapse of those structures, killing 26,271 people. It could be decades before these structures--now strengthened to withstand earthquakes--are rebuilt.
And what makes you think they expect a different outcome? :)
Contrasting this with the perhaps 100x times more energetic march quake in Japan is instructive. As can be seen in the videos of the Tsunami sweeping into the areas close to the epicenter, there was virtually no quake damage to the nearby cities. Building standards matter - a lot.
Turkey does have some decent building codes, but they are of recent date, so most buildings do not comply. There is also a fair amount of corruption going around.
I think another just as instructive example was the destruction of Port-au-Prince in Haiti on 12 January 2010. Because earthquakes on Haiti are very rare, the city had essentially almost no buildings that could withstand anything above a circa 5.5 magnitude earthquake. So when that earthquake struck, the death toll was horrific: some estimates put it at 316,000, with many still missing.
LOL, good point! I suppose you are inferring that there's a certain modicum of intelligence associated with insanity :) ?
I had to come to Freerepublic to find out the strength of the quake. On my drive in, both stations I used have CNN. Neither gave the strength. They just said it was strong. They must have not known which numbers to go with...
Yep, but Turkey doesn´t really have the excuses of Haiti, I.e. deep poverty and a paucity of earthquakes.
It should be noted though that this quake occurred in the poorest part of Turkey, in the far eastern part of the country, which makes things worse.
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