Izmit, Turkey - August 17th 1999 Earthquake
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- Izmit, Turkey - August 17th 1999 Earthquake
- CAUSES
- Plate Movement
- Eurasian plate moving south
- Arabian plate moving north west
- African plate moving north
- Fault lline
- North Anatolian fault - a conservative boundary
- Epicentre
- Izmit - the ground around this area consists of very soft clay or loose sand layers which move much more than solid rock
- Plate Movement
- EFFECTS ON THE PEOPLE
- Destruction over a wide are - in Istanbul, 50km away from the epicentre , buildings were destroyed
- Almost all deaths were due to collapsed buildings. 65000 buildings collapsed in Yalova alone
- Hospitals in Gebze ran out of hospital beds, causing more suffering for the injured
- 18000 died; 300000 left homeless
- In Golchuk there was a solid jam of vehicles along the main road causing problems for rescue workers
- A tidal surge was caused and swept into Izmit Bay on the Sea of Marmara, smashing boats and marooning a ferry in an amusement park. it hit the resort Degirmendee at 6m high
- Two years after the earthquake more than 20000 people were still living in temporary accommodation, some in tents most in prefabricated huts.
- EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
- The oil refinery at Korfez was burning out of control for days causing damage to local ecosystems
- The toxic waste dump at Petkim cracked, exposing waste that had been there or years.
- There was damage to a PVC factory and a waste treatment plant causing raw sewage to contaminate rivers and kill fish
- The earthquake cause massive land movement, some land was reclaimed by the sea of Marmara
- In Yalova near a chlorine plant, a factory producing synthetic fibres had some chemical leaks
- Throughout the area people suffered from diarrhoea due to lack of clean water and spillages of untreated sewage.
- There were concerns cholera would infect the area
- Turkey's largest oil refinery in Tupras caught fire. 700000 tonnes of oil burnt.
- This caused large quantities of pollution in the air, water and land. this affected local people with breathing illnessses
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