Turkey Earthquakes 2023

Question 1

Magnitude?

Answer 1

7.8 (Higher than New Zealand + Haiti)

Question 2

Focus?

Answer 2

18km shallow focus

Question 3

Epicentre?

Answer 3

Close to city where many humanitarian aid organisations based

Question 4

Boundary?

Answer 4

Conservative (Plates slide past eachother)

Question 5

Social Impacts

Answer 5

50,000 deaths

100,000+ injuries

1.5 million homeless

Led to extreme poverty heightening etc…

Question 6

Economic Impacts

Answer 6

$34 billion infrastructure damage

Question 7

Environmental Impacts

Answer 7

Impact air and water quality due to toxic substances from damaged buildings being released

Question 8

Vulnerability?

Answer 8

Highly urbanised area with dense populations

Mountainous, isolated villages impacted that were hard to deliver aid to/ no tech to properly communicate

Higher inequality, stress on services big issue

Question 9

Resilience?

Answer 9

Experienced aftershocks of same mag as actual earthquake

$13k low GDP so rely more on aid to reach normality (Contrasts with New Zealand $48k)

Question 10

Link to mitigation and adaptation