1.16 Turkey

Question 1

Where is Istanbul?

Answer 1

• collision and conservative plate boundaries along the North Anatolian Fault

Question 2

Facts about 12mit EQ in 1999

Answer 2

• magnitude 7.6
• killed 17,00
• injured up to 50,000
• heavy industrial damage due to fires and tsunami’s
• flats were destroyed trapping many

Question 3

What can be done to reduce damage of EQ?

Answer 3

• make statistical projections (the likelihood of something happen at certain locations)
• use long term evidence from monitoring networks
• persuade governments to have building regulations/ evacuation plans in place for major places
• build models of magma movement/ measure EQ stress

Question 4

Why does EQ prediction not happen?

Answer 4

• very expensive to make changes to a city living in poverty

- nothing can be done if currently known geoscience isn’t communicated

Question 5

random info

Answer 5

• lack of knowledge or beliefs that EQ is an act from God meant lack of preparation
• many old buildings are not built to withstand EQ’s and trap 10,000’s people