Guest Post by Moon of Alabama
Earlier today two large earthquakes have caused widespread damage in south Turkey and north Syria:
Nine hours after a first earthquake of magnitude M7.8 that hits south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, February 6th 2023 at 1h17 UTC, a second M7.5 occurs (at 10h24 UTC) 100km further north. More information on the main shock (M7.8) is available here and for the 7.5 (here).
These earthquakes has been largely felt up to 2000 km from the epicenter, mainly in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, …
At the time of the report, a lot of buildings are damaged in Turkey and Syria and more than 1200 peoples haven been killed in Turkey and Syria.
Some 10 million people live in the affected area. The current count of death is already above 2,500. Whole city blocks have ‘pancaked’ (vid) and were destroyed. Many dead will likely still be under the rubble.
The area is prone to earthquakes. Just days ago an expert had warned that a big one was coming:
Frank Hoogerbeets @hogrbe – 0:03 UTC · Feb 3, 2023Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). #deprem
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After the first big shake:
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The biggest death toll in Turkey is in Kahramanmaras, the epicenter of the quake, where 70 people are reported dead. Television footage shows emergency teams and volunteers trying to rescue people under the debris in the province under heavy snowfall.Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, bordering war-torn Syria, stands out as one of the most impacted areas in the region. Hatay Gov. Rahmi Dogan said two state hospitals had collapsed in the province’s central town of Antakya and the seaside town of Iskenderun.
“The majority of the buildings along the coast of Iskenderun collapsed,” a Hatay resident told Al-Monitor. Volkan Demirel, coach of Hatayspor and former soccer player, appealed for help in an online video. “Please help, the situation … here is really bad,” Demirel said in tears.
Vice President Fuat Oktay said that the province’s airport was closed due to heavy damage.
Orhan Mursaloglu, deputy mayor of Antakya, was among those trapped under the rubble after his apartment building collapsed. No rescue workers had reached the site as of time of publication of this article, his relatives told Al-Monitor.
Some 25 years ago I backpack traveled in the area. I had visited Sanliurfa and Gaziantep and a number of smaller towns. The standard of the buildings going up there were very mixed. Some were sturdy. But in others the concrete pillars holding the upper floors seemed extremely weak to me. They were build with very little reinforcements. In the later city I had climbed up to the imposing castle above the town. Unfortunately it no longer exists.
Liz Cookman @liz_cookman – 7:02 UTC · Feb 6, 2023Gaziantep castle, constructed by the Romans and rebuilt extensively by the Seljuks, collapsed. #deprem #TurkeyEarthquake
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This would be a good time to lift those sanctions if only for purely humanitarian reasons.
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Now they will be shaking their aid
donations cans all over the place.
Millions will go to those who do not
need it, and a pittance will fall to the
desperate.
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I believe charity starts at home.
So I will continue to donate my thin
resources and support to myself, who
would suffer more if I were to stop.
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When a large earthquake finally
devastates California, surely all
the world will ululate in sheer joy
over the destruction of the whores.
I understand BJ and HiLIARy are engaging the Clinton Cash Laundry Foundation to start collecting donations. Those affected should expect to see relief from CCLF sometime in late ’29, after expenses are paid.
They will build exactly two unfinished homes with their millions in donations. i.e. Haiti.
It seems people in that part of the world rejoiced at WTC drop.
Why? Because you saw ‘something’ on CNN?
I can’t imagine why so much damage. When everything is built of stone or concrete. Does the shaking damage these rigid stone structures, used throughout the centuries? /s
Maybe using concrete and stone in earth quake prone areas isn’t a great idea after all. What happens next, tons of money from the bankers floods in, gets laundered and recycled back to the bankers. Building will be bulldozed out after a year, and a new concrete/stone building will take its place.
No interests in designing building to resist earthquakes there. To expensive. They’ll never use wood because they have been programmed that wooden houses in the west burn down frequently. Centuries of traditional building methods are not easily overcome.
send money, they’ll love you until they don’t
On Earthquakes in general , and their somewhat predictable ” migration-of-energy ” across the globe , watch the DUTCHSINSE channel on youtube.
He is very good.
I didn’t even know we are sanctioning Syria. The only reason is because “Israel” wants to steal more land, because they are greedy covetous thieves.
Only if by Israel, you include plotters within the US. Syria was the Shia (sort of) holdout country stopping the planned gas & oil pipelines from the Gulf to Europe across Turkey. Now Erdogan is making amends with Assad and planning a gas “hub ” with Russia, so American plans are being foiled.
Earthquakes are amusing until your in a really big one. When we had the 7.0 in Anchorage a few years ago, it sounded like there was a train in front of the house. That was the shock wave. The house shook massively for over a minute. We had a couple little things break. I met people who had every dish and glass in the house break. It was followed by thousands of aftershocks over the next couple months. Most you do not feel. But the bigger ones your saying. Oh shit not again. It is no joke when your in a big quake. Then people, mostly kids were having nightmares. It’s something you will never forget. Mother nature is not kind or gentle in Alaska. I have also experienced typhoons, floods, volcanic ash, massive wind and snow storms. If nothing happens for a couple years, you know something big is coming. One of the fun things you can do is track them at Alaska geophysical. I learned anything below 3.0 is not felt. At 3.0 and higher the stairs shake. 4.0 is about a 20 second shake. 5.0 about a 30 second shake. That’s if they are in the area. The 7.0 was only 7 miles epicenter from downtown Anchorage, about 15 miles from my house. It also matter how deep. The 7.0 was a shallow quake which makes for more shake.
Going through this guy’s twitter stream there are some amazing video that is continuing way after the first quake. The terror must be terrible with nowhere to go, and it is winter.
I have also heard them grinding when they are within a few miles of epicenter.
I thought Syria was all rubble anyway. Did the rubble crumble?
According to the fake news, it was all rubble. Until suddenly, it wasn’t. Now it is all rubble again. Until the fake news says something else.
Never believe what the fake news proclaims. Orwell was correct.
Look up, a balloon in the sky. Look down, the earth shook.
What is that that they are trying to distract us from now? Can’t be CBDCs, right?
Surely, earthquakes are the one thing occuring in the natural world that man has no influence on. /s
Not really, read about Tesla. He did cause one. Wonder what happened to his inventions, did they end up in the goat’s hands. One can only hope not.
Now it is very easy to figure out which buildings were built by unscrupulous contractors who shorted the concrete mix and stole the rebar away for other projects.
I just had time to watch some of the footage, both from eye witnesses when it happened, and the drone footage of the aftermath. Weird. Some of the buildings came straight down building-7-style (at free fall speed?) while the ones right next to them were barely damaged. Not sure what to make of that. Directed energy weapons? Would make a great distraction.
Some of the concrete has rebar reinforcing, others don’t. This is really common in most 3rd world countries, especially in rural areas with little or no building codes.
I see. Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Little to no rebar in the concrete and when the concrete was mixed, the amount of cement was shorted. Crooked contractors will do that early and often. Take the rebar and cement somewhere else and sell it for profit. That is what happens is socialist owned and operated disaster areas. Even if there are building inspectors, set aside some of the profits to pay off the inspectors.
Free market capitalism isn’t the problem. Socialist greed combined with crony capitalism is the problem. The building contractors are always on a very short list of “approved” contractors inside these socialist shithole countries. The unapproved contractors are unapproved because they refuse to play the game of corruption enabled by the socialists running everything inside the big-failure government.
Yes. That a building with no steel reinforcing whatsoever.
It is allah’s will. They need to accept it.
Makes the same sense as the snow globe universe flat earth sky fairy worshipers proclaiming that their holy sky fairy that lives inside their heads is 100% in charge of everything and there is nothing that can be done better because the holy sky fairy demands it.
All of this destruction, pain and suffering could have been avoided if Turkey simply would have banned short skirts and promiscuous women. According to Islamic Scholars in Iran and Pakistan, that’s what has caused earthquakes to transpire in that part of the world. No official word from the Taliban or ISIS yet, so it probably goes without saying they have the same mindset.
That, and not enough killing of those who refuse to worship the moon god of the desert.
Expect the Muslim terrorists to increase their rate of daily killings until there are no more infidels.
Is that like the volcano demon of the jews?
I don’t know but I can’t disagree too much with them. Kinda like Fred Phelps might have been an asshole, but God really does hate fags.
I was in Izmir (Smyrna) in 1975 when a 5.5 hit us and I “flew” about 4 ft into a wall and instantly flew back; there was a strong wind sound and I watched the city lights blink out in a line perpendicular to the line of travel of the compression shock wave going off in the distance and over a mountain at about the speed of sound. The buildings were mostly damaged on the first floor columns where the cement was blasted away from the rebar. Obviously the more mass of the columns, the higher quality of cement and rebar, and less total stories, the better the survival rate. People, don’t live on a fault, on the coast, near a volcano, in a big Blue city, in a desert, under a cliff, next to a river, or where the Ice was a mile high 30,000 years ago.