Earthquake Case Study - Turkey
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- Case Study: Turkey Earthquake
- 17th August 1999 Just after 3am
- "Izmit", "Kocaeli" or "Golcuk" earthquake
- Shock lasted less than 1 minute, and was magnitude 7.4
- Eurasia and Africa/Arabia plates involved, which are grinding into each other, north to south
- Epi-centre was Izmit, 50 miles from Istanbul
- On the Anatolian fault (conservative plate margin), so it occured when the plate slipped
- Air pollution due to a fire at Tupras oil refinery
- Tidal waves flooded farm land on the coast damaging crops
- 17000 killed, over 20,000 injured, 500,000 left homeless
- Poor quality, crowded housing, gecekondus meant they were destroyed easily
- Lack of clean water so spread of disease
- Fish died due to untreated sewage contaminting the river
- Short term- medical supplies, tents, blankets and medical rescue teams
- Countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Japan ad the USA
- Long term- assistance for planning for natural disasters (education) and money to repair infrastructure
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