Türkiye’s remarkable experience to deal with earthquake hazards

According to the report of the international group Tasnim News Agency, About a year has passed since the terrible earthquake that struck Turkey, but not only its consequences are still standing, but also the concern about the next earthquakes has made the political authorities of this country struggle. Turkey’s heroic earthquake killed nearly 51,000 people in this country, and its aftermath in northern Syria killed 8,000 citizens of Turkey’s southern neighbor.

The 7.8 Richter earthquake occurred while geophysicists and earthquake experts in Turkey had repeatedly announced that the Anatolian faults are dangerous and the municipalities of these regions had warned about extensive and non-standard construction. But now the Turkish government has reached a new conclusion and the devastating earthquake of Herod has forced the Erdogan government to design an effective road map to deal with the consequences of the earthquake. It seems that some of the decisions of this road map are also instructive for Iran. We will not build a city

Representatives of the Turkish parliament witnessed the speech of the minister who previously preferred to remain silent about the fault lines in this country and Even the map does not recognize the faults. But this time, in his speech behind the podium of the parliament, he took a big picture, which showed that he and his colleagues have taken the issue of mistakes seriously.

Mohammet Ozheski Minister Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of Turkey, in his speech, he announced: “We must accept the fact that Turkey is the land of earthquakes. Now that we have identified the faults with the bitter experiences of several decades, we are strictly monitoring the building construction in cities and villages and we will never allow any construction to take place on the earthquake fault lines. We have no compliments on this matter. It does not matter which municipality gives such permission. As soon as we are informed, we will deal with it and prevent it.” who ignore the bed of the river and the border of the river in the construction, take serious decisions and all the governorates of the country take such actions with urgency and in an aggressive manner.

He acknowledged the fact that the occurrence of terrible floods and landslides in 5 provinces of Turkey is directly related to the wrong behavior of humans with nature and as a result many human casualties, floods and material damages. It is not an issue that can be justified by fate and unforeseen events.

Uzehski further pointed to the terrible picture of some crowded and disorderly cities in Turkey. Kurde and says: “The situation of some of our cities is really terrible and worrying. My intention of expressing these damages is not to take a political stance towards previous governments or parties and municipalities. I want all of us to evaluate the reality objectively and concretely, regardless of our political and party views. Because in the last 70 years, we have witnessed the construction of many houses with weak foundations due to excessive migration to the cities. Illegally, even in the hours of the night, without any kind of technical and legal measures, they built small and big houses and shacks. As a result, the landscape we are faced with is unhealthy and rickety houses and neighborhoods and cities without identity and disorganization. Regrettably, I must say that on the outskirts of most of our cities, millions of houses that are not resistant to earthquakes have been built. .com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/11/26/1401112617035453927073294.jpg”/>

According to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Turkey, this country with more Out of 500 active fault lines, it is one of the 5 most dangerous countries in the line extending from the Alps to the Himalayas, and 66% of Turkey’s land is located in the first and second degree earthquake zone.

To put it plainly, more than 70% of Turkey’s population is located in the first and second degree earthquake zone and lives in these areas.

Since 1900 That is, since the use of instrumental measurements became common, the number of destructive earthquakes above 6 on the Richter scale has been 231 in Turkey’s maritime areas, and it has experienced two devastating earthquakes almost every year. Also, the number of earthquakes that have occurred in Turkey’s mainland is more than 60, and in addition to killing more than 130 thousand people, billions of dollars in financial losses have been caused.

The biggest disaster in Anatolia in the last thousand years

Minister Housing and Urban Planning of Turkey has announced that the terrible earthquake of this year’s Merash, which occurred on February 6, is the biggest disaster that has ever happened in the thousand-year civilization of Anatolia. because it directly affected the lives of 14 million people in 18 cities. , investigated the cities of the earthquake-hit region and their research showed that out of the total of 6 million buildings that were investigated after the earthquake, the number of buildings that needed to be completely demolished was 680 thousand residential units and also about 170 thousand shops. and the workplace were included in the list of buildings that should be completely razed to the ground. In the rural areas of Kahraman Maresh province, the houses have to be reconstructed with steel-iron structure and the tender for the construction of 50 thousand resistant rural housing units left a heavy cost on the hands of the Turkish government.

Istanbul is in danger

The metropolis of 14 million people Istanbul, on It is located on the most powerful earthquake fault in western Turkey. According to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Turkey, research by Turkish engineers and experts has shown that the number of weak and dangerous buildings in Istanbul is higher than in any other province.

There are 31 million residential buildings and 6 million office buildings in Turkey. Of these buildings, 6 million residential buildings and 1.5 million shops and offices are at risk. This means that one-sixth of all the buildings in Turkey have no resistance against the smallest earthquake, and if the incident happens again, the number of casualties will be high.

Special and sensitive Istanbul and the need to demolish 350 thousand buildings, the Turkish government has launched a campaign whose content is as follows: “Let us demolish and rebuild.” Half of the cost will be borne by the government.” and their buildings are being demolished and reconstructed. It is predicted that by the end of 2014, at least 750 thousand buildings in Istanbul will be demolished and reconstructed.

Turkey and the dream of smart cities

The Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Turkey announced that this country plans to, within the framework of a program In detail, take measures to make cities smarter. So that the cities and its structures are resistant to disasters and in these cities, special importance is given to horizontalization.

This means It is that elevation and clustering in cities that are located near big faults will be abandoned. Of course, in addition to retrofitting and smartening, other issues such as valuing “neighborhood culture” as well as the ambitious slogan of “reducing waste to zero” have been examined in the said plan.

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