KATASTROPHEN
Recent major earthquakes in Turkey
February 6, 2023 -
Das Erdbeben mit Stärke 7.8, das über 2.300 Menschen in der Türkei und in Nordwest-Syrien getötet hat, war eines der schwersten in der Türkei in den letzten Jahren. Kurz danach folgte ein weiteres schweres Beben der Stärke 7.7.
The quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter morning, was also felt in Cyprus and Lebanon.
It was Turkey's most severe quake since 1999, when one of similar magnitude devastated Izmit and the heavily populated eastern Marmara Sea region near Istanbul, killing more than 17,000.
- Huge earthquake kills more than 2,200 in Turkey and Syria, bad weather worsens plight(Reuters)
- North Anatolian Fault, Turkey (Geolsoc.org)
- Monday’s earthquake was as powerful as the strongest recorded in Turkey in 1939 (NYT)
- Timeline: Turkey hit by most devastating earthquake since 1999 (Al-Jazeera)