Turkey/Syria Earthquake 2023 Flashcards
When was this?
6th Feb 2023
What is Turkey’s geographic position?
Lying partly in Asia and Europe
Where are the most populated areas?
Coastlines
Why are the most populated areas at coastlines?
Tourism and trade
What does the Gini Index show?
Inequality
What is Turkey’s Gini Index?
41.9% in 2018
How big is the economy on a scale?
19th
How many people originally estimated to have died 3 days later?
21k died
How many people are estimated to have died a year on?
55k died
What was the magnitude of the earthquake?
7.8
How many were estimated to have been affected?
4 million
What was the response time like emergency relief?
Considered too slow
Where did it struck?
Nurdagi and Gaizanteo
What plate is it on?
Destructive plate boundary
What were the aftershocks like?
So bad considered its own earthquake
What is an earthquake that we can compare Turkey with?
Japan 2024
Why can we compare the 2?
As Japan were able to organise and respond and is a leader in disaster risk reduction and preparedness unlike Turkey
How many people died in the Japan earthquake?
55 deaths compared to Turkey’s 55,000
Why was Turkey’s aid complicated?
Due to the Syria civil war
How many people were injured?
130k people
How many children faced an increased risk of poverty?
2.5 million people
What does Turkey host?
Largest number of refugees in the world according to UNHCR
How many buildings like schools and hospitals were completely destroyed?
200k
What was severally disrupted in NW Syria?
Access to essential healthcare
What caused 40 fires in 2023?
Record scotching temperatures
What are construction amnesties?
A fee to not have to keep up with regulations
In 2018, How many buildings that were constructed in violation of regulations?
50%
What did the UN and its agencies deploy?
Disaster assessment experts, search and rescue, emergency relief
What did WHO send?
Health supplies to reach 400,000 people impacted by the earthquake
What did the UN WFP provide?
Food assistance and has reached almost 1.7m people in the 2 countries
How many people were left homeless?
1.5m
How much did the UN release from its Central Emergency Response fund?
$50 million
What was the mitigation stage like?
Turkey set out stricter building laws, however there were construction amnesties
What was the preparedness stage like?
Warnings of the earthquake
Earthquake drills held every year
What was the response stage like?
Heavily criticised due to people left to fend for themselves in the hours following the quake.
What was the recovery stage like?
Government launched a initiative aimed at getting people temp paid jobs
How many people did this initiative time to help?
10,000 people
How much did this earthquake cost the government?
$103 billion
