Türkiye | 2023 Earthquakes Situation Report

 




SITUATION OVERVIEW

At 4:17 a.m. on 6 February 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck close to Gaziantep city in southern Türkiye – the most powerful earthquake recorded in the country since 1939. A second earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred some nine hours later, with its epicentre only around 70 kilometres from the first earthquake, near Ekinozu city in Kahramanmaras province. On the same day, the Government of Türkiye issued a Level 4 alarm calling for international assistance, with the earthquakes having caused widespread destruction of houses and infrastructure in urban centres and rural areas across the country. Since 6 February, at least 5,700 aftershocks have occurred according to Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) on 18 February. On 18 February, the Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change announced that 345,000 individual units in 90,609 buildings either collapsed or were heavily damaged.

On 7 February, the Government of Türkiye announced a 3-month state of emergency in 10 affected provinces: Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa. Some 15 million people live in these 10 provinces, including over 1.7 million Syrian refugees and around 4.6 million children. At least 9.1 million people have been directly impacted in the 11 most affected provinces, which include the 10 provinces in which a state of emergency has been declared (Adiyaman, Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Malatya, Diyarbakir, Adana, Osmaniye, Kahramanmaras and Sanliurfa) and Elazig. As of 18 February, 40,642 people were killed and more than 108,000 were injured due to the earthquakes, while over 430,000 people from affected areas have been relocated to other provinces, according to AFAD.

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