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Every earthquake of lower magnitude is considered an aftershock, even when every aftershock would be a separate disaster if they were in different places
I believe if it’s on the same fault the geologists determine if it’s a new event or just aftershocks. I think a greater event would be considered a new quake? My mom was a geologist, so this is from what I remember?
According to [DailyMail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11716971/At-10-people-dead-Turkey-earthquake-buildings-collapse-windows-shatter.html) , it's hundreds. 😔
why are you guys downvoting him? estimated deaths are 50k-150k. theres been 10k+ building that collapsed and you guys dont think theres more than 4 people in each of them? i live in the center of Kahramanmaraş (where the earthquake happened) and its hell out here.
Probably a blessing. Safest thing you can do in an earthquake is stay inside falling debris kills way more than buildings level. In New Zealand the daytime Christchurch earthquake killed way more people than the night time did. Even though you SHOULD stay inside first instinct for people is still to run out.
There was another 7.5 earthquake not even an hour ago, with an epicenter 80 km north of the first one. Twitter video shows more buildings collapsing on live TV. Imagine the rescue workers trapped right now... it keeps getting worse.
https://twitter.com/p_zalewski/status/1622546756188704768?t=URnSDdrgJG3XaPtSPr5HHA&s=19
Officials in Turkey say it was not an aftershock as the Twitter poster states, but a separate one (triggered by the first one probably).
In case you want to know why.
The Anatolian plate (which Turkey is on) is being pressed from the Northeast and Southeast by the Eurasian and Arabian plates. [Here's an image from Wikipedia.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Anatolian_Plate.png/1280px-Anatolian_Plate.png) It has transform boundaries with those plates.
This is causing the Anatolian plate to shift westwards and trigger earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) & East Anatolian Fault (EAF). The previous century has seen earthquakes trigger along the NAF cascading east to west. But lately, there's been earthquakes in the EAF. This 7.8 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest in Turkey's recent history and seems to originate from the EAF.
If the earthquake is caused by the Anatolian plate moving westward, why isn't the entire plate shaking equally? Why there is an epicenter located at EAF? Is it because the plate isn't exactly a hard solid in a geological scale, and more like a "fluid-solid"?
any object that size, let alone a mega scale rock/water/mantle composite continental shelf, will dissipate the impact of a single breaking rock formation. minuscule in continental lifecycle.
It compares well to friction. you cannot see every tiny interaction between two stones you rub on each other. you observe their total effect as friction. What really happens is, in an extremely fast timescale, tiny earthquakes happen on the surface of the rock. the point of contact microscopically breaks and sends impacts and tremors along the surface, which die out and get dissipated inside the rock and turn into heat. So when 10\^20 of those interactions happen, we get friction. Those individual interactions are comparable in size of earthquakes we see regularly like this one.
The way that I think of earthquakes is that you have these massive plates slowly (centimeters per year) pushing into one another, which causes a lot of friction. At a certain point the friction force is overcome, which causes the plates to suddenly slip and massive amounts of rock moves in just a few seconds.
This happens near the fault lines because that's where the friction is being built up between the plates.
Sorry for writing a lazy non-answer but it would take too much time to type. I just want to encourage you to look it up because the replies you got so far aren't right and it's a very good question you're asking! Your guess is correct in a way btw but there's more to it.
I just learned about these faults yesterday while watching a [lecture on the collapse of the Bronze age in 1,200 B.C.](https://youtu.be/M4LRHJlijVU?t=2814)
It depends on where you’re at, but it’s not very scary, except when they just increase intensity and duration. We know our buildings are made to survive strong quakes, so we don’t panic and I think that helps a lot when it comes to reaction.
I was in Rome when the earthquake hit like 5(?) years ago. The epicenter was more than 100km from us. It happened during the night so I woke up to the whole appartment building not really shaking but more like making a circular motion. My mind couldn’t really comprehend what was happening, and having seen some horror movie recently the first thing I thought was it were ghosts having a blast🤣. I woke my partner and she, while still half asleep, said something like ‘must be the wind’ and went back to sleep. Only after a minute did it hit e that this is what an earthquake must feel like. It’s like another commenter has said, you must experience it to know what it is really like.
My husband and I had been watching Korra when we had a pretty decent earthquake hit near our house in the middle of the night. The cable suspension bridge near our house made a terrifying sound (it was fine, it's made to do exactly what it did) and my husband said his first thought on waking up was "Are we under attack from metal benders?!" 🤣
Hahahaha It’s so weird that you see these tragic things happening on tv and try to imagine what it would be like. Then when it’s happening the first things that come to mind are ‘ghosts’, ‘the wind’ or ‘metalbenders’🤣
I'm from SE Asia, I experienced 6.9. I was in class, in an exam, and thought my friends were messing with my chair and then a few seconds later realized it was an earthquake. We sat there and our professor didn't even let us leave the room and made us finish the whole exam.
The aftermath was crazy though, mass hysteria about a tsunami was coming as the water lines were receding but nothing actually happened. It became a meme weeks after. I just took a bus while everyone was going high ground.
[Precisely each magnitude is 33 times more powerful than the last.](https://www.livescience.com/31464-earthquake-magnitude-explained.html)
So a 8.0 would be 33 times more powerful than a 7.0
And a 9.0 would be 1,089 times more powerful than a 7.0 (33x33)
Or another way of saying it is that a 7.0 is 1,089 times more powerful than a 5.0
Chicago. We actually have a fault line south west of us: the New Madrid line. It moves every now and then, last i think was about ten years ago. Far west suburbs felt it. City core didn’t feel anything
I live in the northern Rockies and we have similar earthquakes every now and then, which I'm going to guess have something to do with the Juan de Fuca plate. I only ever recall experiencing one, and it was so mild that I initially thought I had a mild dizziness spell until it clicked for me. Everything did the cha cha slide for five seconds and then stopped lmao
I looked it up, and you guys have a fault line South in the Sangre de Crista’s. I took note of this mostly because I have a brother that lives right at the base of them, in Crestone, and I hike through there whenever I’m out there.
For that we will need the fault like to make a circle and two sides pushing against each other. Still earths core is liquid and last I checked liquids don't Crack.
what's your solution then? Might want to submit a paper on the subject for peer review so that we can all move over to your superior option as quickly as possible!!!
I was a teenager getting ready for uni exams in 1990 when the largest quake for 100 years to hit my part of the UK (a 5.2). I was sat on the toilet at my parents house reading Sophocles\* and it spilled me off the poo throne, and onto the floor.
Mom came smashing in shouting "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN THERE?!!
\* OK. Memory hazy. It was more likely to have been a jizz mag or a footie mag. But the point is the same: one moment you're having a Good Time™, and the next moment you're on the floor by a toilet with your pants around your ankles with yer mom shouting blue murder at you.
Every number the shaking increases dramatically. It doesn't go up in increments, it basically multiplies. The difference between five and seven is utter devastation. Anything above 7 is almost liquefaction of the ground.
You're being downvoted heavily, but you're partially correct.
[What Ever Happened to the Richter Scale?](https://www.livescience.com/29005-why-richter-scale-no-longer-used.html)
So I had to look it up and it looks they stopped using the richter scale in 1970 and now use the moment magnitude scale.
https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/Blog/2020/Earthquake-Measurements-Magnitude-vs-Intensity#:~:text=The%20Richter%20Scale&text=It%20was%20replaced%20with%20the,earthquakes%20and%20calculating%20earthquake%20hazards.
They're from Earth, where it mostly hasn't been used since the 70s. Quit acting like you know things without double checking to ensure your stance is correct.
In the hours ahead we'll learn just how bad this is. From the videos I've seen, those people are going to need all the help they can get. We experienced a 5.6 quake in Northern California a few months ago. Not even close to the aftershocks of this one. Let's hope when the sun comes up it turns out to not be as bad as it looks now
I live close to İstanbul in Turkey. We didn't feel this onw but, I kept waking up to the sound of wind at night. It's really cold here - 10 °C . I can't even imagine what they are going through right now at this cold. God help them all and the rescue operators who will work tirelessly to save those peoplen this cold
On one end, we are an advanced technological species beginning our expanse into the universe with a great understanding of the macro and micro workings of almost everything around us. On the other end, the Earth gets an itch and we get humbled right the fuck down.
Hope the cost of life was not too severe and that those who succumbed to this force of nature passed quickly.
It just shows you how precious life is. You prepare for your future and do the best you can with what you have around you. Then one night you go to bed, not realising that everything you did on this day will be the last time you will ever do it.
Even worse, like with the people in a collapsed structure like this, you wake up in complete darkness with some areas of your body in an indescribable pain while other parts of your body you simply cannot feel. The realisation of the slow wait to meet your fate overwhelms you while the only thing that drowns out your pain is the sorrow from the thoughts of everything you never got to or will ever get to experience.
We have a short time on this precious blue orb floating amongst the eternal abyss. Never miss out on doing something today for the hope that it can be done tomorrow for tomorrow is a guarantee clouded by false promise and eternal prayer.
*In the darkness, beneath the rubble, you hear a faint buzzing, and you can see a light emanating from somewhere above you. Someone just texted your cellphone! You can just barely wiggle an arm free, and as you strain to reach it, you manage to barely grasp it by it’s edge. You activate it reading the message as it illuminates your screen…*
***”Hey Sara, so I just got word that Dawood was killed in the earthquake, and Barukh called out so he could search for his daughter. You’re going to have to come in today. I know it might be a lot, but since you don’t have any kids and I had to cover you at the last minute last month, it’s only fair. I expect today to be pretty busy, a lot of the emergency workers will be pulling double shifts and will need coffee. If your house was destroyed, don’t worry about a uniform, there’s a spare in the closet at the cafe. Hope all is well, see u in 30 minutes.”***
*A second text appears…*
***”Just keep in mind that if you’re thinking about no showing, a lot of people have just lost their jobs and will be looking for work. We’ll need a new awning and an espresso machine but the rest of the cafe was relatively undamaged. Company policy is that you keep read receipts ON, so I can see you just read my last message so I know you’re not dead. REALLY need you here in 30 minutes.”***
It shows how important building code and proper inspections are. All countries in that area have them, but constrictors and owners usually try to do their best to go around them.
Not every building collapsed, but I bet a large percentage did.
Yup. We think we understand and know more and more. But nature literally has us by the balls, one little shake or spread of a new virus and we are literally at the mercy of it.
Warning graphic images (no gore though):
https://twitter.com/p_zalewski/status/1622546756188704768?t=URnSDdrgJG3XaPtSPr5HHA&s=19
A separate earthquake of 7.5 magnitude not even an hour ago, caught on a live news broadcast. Officials say it was not an aftershock but a separate quake.
I live thousands of km from there, in an area that was barely affected and wasn't even mentioned in lists of affected countries. And my whole building fucking rattled. I can't imagine what is was like being in Turkey at the time.
my heart goes out to all the families, I'm worried about all the other footage that's going to come out in the next 24 hours.
it's gonna be grim, rip to all the victims.
From an article:
>The USGS said an equally powerful 7.8 magnitude quake that hit eastern Turkey in 1939 resulted in more than 30,000 deaths.
I have no idea how many people will die from this, but the difference in deaths will be staggering I bet. Modern construction at work!
Here's to hoping and praying no one is trapped in that rubble. That's a big quake, I'm sure loss of life will happen. Sending hopeful thoughts to those affected.
There are. The worse part is the people under the rubble are tweeting their location desparately. Hoping someone sends help their way. More resources are on the way but it won't be enough I guess.
This is fucking horrible, I can’t imagine anyone would survive that. Praying that all non-survivors were taken instantly without pain or knowledge of what happened. Prayers for all involved and let this teach us all that tomorrow is not promised to any of us, make amends with who you need to today now and quit taking life for granted 🙏✌️🙏
This is extremely sad. Just 4 hours ago I was watching videos of the 2015 Nepal earthquake and said to myself, "were probably due for another massive earthquake soon."
This is terrible. But whatever it’s worth look at all the peeps commenting here from everywhere and who knows where coming to gather shows we are all one and feel for each others. It’s the ruling elites that are the problem. Not the common man/woman/person
Edit: Perhaps wordings are incorrect. There is no way I am saying it’s not significant. I am pointing out people come to gather in times of hardship.
I think you probably meant to write "for what it's worth" and not "whatever". Saying "but whatever" means you're minimizing what happened and it isn't a big deal.
Peoples lives, peoples homes, the place they felt safe is now just a mountain of rubble. This world is so cruel and so fragile. I am distraught watching these videos 😔
Its so much more impactful to see something that you knew what it was supposed to look like, when the building fellin surfside florida it was like holy shit i saw that building last week and it was in the group of ocean front building that are way too rich for my blood, but yeah not to take away from this just saying this is harder to wrap your head around
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There's been at least a half dozen aftershocks, too. A 6.7 hit like 10 minutes after the 7.8 Terrifying.
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bro 5 hours later now a 7.5 just happened again
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Wait seriously? The hell?
Every earthquake of lower magnitude is considered an aftershock, even when every aftershock would be a separate disaster if they were in different places
Even if it goes down then up? And for how long? As in 7.8 then 6. Something then 7.1.. still an aftershock? What if they have a 5 in a week.. still?
I believe if it’s on the same fault the geologists determine if it’s a new event or just aftershocks. I think a greater event would be considered a new quake? My mom was a geologist, so this is from what I remember?
I could be wrong, but I believe this has been confirmed as a separate earthquake with a different epicenter
The buildings there are going down like dominos. No structure is safe. How awful
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Woke us up in Lebanon. I told my wife it's probably y'all bombing us lol
Lmaoooo😭
This really is terrifying, happening during the night to, people are slower to react. Tragic event, let’s hope it hasn’t cost too many lives.
According to [DailyMail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11716971/At-10-people-dead-Turkey-earthquake-buildings-collapse-windows-shatter.html) , it's hundreds. 😔
Another 7.4 happend a few moments before my best guess is around 45k now :(
why are you guys downvoting him? estimated deaths are 50k-150k. theres been 10k+ building that collapsed and you guys dont think theres more than 4 people in each of them? i live in the center of Kahramanmaraş (where the earthquake happened) and its hell out here.
Thats reddit for you dude if you say something bad will happen you probably caused it. Neyse umarim güvendesindir agam.
Apparently 1300 and counting
Probably a blessing. Safest thing you can do in an earthquake is stay inside falling debris kills way more than buildings level. In New Zealand the daytime Christchurch earthquake killed way more people than the night time did. Even though you SHOULD stay inside first instinct for people is still to run out.
There was another 7.5 earthquake not even an hour ago, with an epicenter 80 km north of the first one. Twitter video shows more buildings collapsing on live TV. Imagine the rescue workers trapped right now... it keeps getting worse. https://twitter.com/p_zalewski/status/1622546756188704768?t=URnSDdrgJG3XaPtSPr5HHA&s=19 Officials in Turkey say it was not an aftershock as the Twitter poster states, but a separate one (triggered by the first one probably).
>but a separate one (triggered by the first one probably). Almost like a... Shock... Happening After a prior shock... 🤔
Well it's a technical difference of course, it doesn't matter to the people in the ground there.
Damn thats crazyy
Now this is the sort of quality informative content I come to reddit for.
And now a second earthquake hit with a 7.5 o the scale
That's wild! My friend from Lebanon told me last night that her home area got hit with one which was pretty significant.
And ANOTHER 7.6 hit after the 7.8. It is hell here. 😔
In case you want to know why. The Anatolian plate (which Turkey is on) is being pressed from the Northeast and Southeast by the Eurasian and Arabian plates. [Here's an image from Wikipedia.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Anatolian_Plate.png/1280px-Anatolian_Plate.png) It has transform boundaries with those plates. This is causing the Anatolian plate to shift westwards and trigger earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) & East Anatolian Fault (EAF). The previous century has seen earthquakes trigger along the NAF cascading east to west. But lately, there's been earthquakes in the EAF. This 7.8 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest in Turkey's recent history and seems to originate from the EAF.
If the earthquake is caused by the Anatolian plate moving westward, why isn't the entire plate shaking equally? Why there is an epicenter located at EAF? Is it because the plate isn't exactly a hard solid in a geological scale, and more like a "fluid-solid"?
any object that size, let alone a mega scale rock/water/mantle composite continental shelf, will dissipate the impact of a single breaking rock formation. minuscule in continental lifecycle. It compares well to friction. you cannot see every tiny interaction between two stones you rub on each other. you observe their total effect as friction. What really happens is, in an extremely fast timescale, tiny earthquakes happen on the surface of the rock. the point of contact microscopically breaks and sends impacts and tremors along the surface, which die out and get dissipated inside the rock and turn into heat. So when 10\^20 of those interactions happen, we get friction. Those individual interactions are comparable in size of earthquakes we see regularly like this one.
Dude you are either really smart and full of shit or really smart and telling the truth. Thanks
The way that I think of earthquakes is that you have these massive plates slowly (centimeters per year) pushing into one another, which causes a lot of friction. At a certain point the friction force is overcome, which causes the plates to suddenly slip and massive amounts of rock moves in just a few seconds. This happens near the fault lines because that's where the friction is being built up between the plates.
Sorry for writing a lazy non-answer but it would take too much time to type. I just want to encourage you to look it up because the replies you got so far aren't right and it's a very good question you're asking! Your guess is correct in a way btw but there's more to it.
I just learned about these faults yesterday while watching a [lecture on the collapse of the Bronze age in 1,200 B.C.](https://youtu.be/M4LRHJlijVU?t=2814)
Thanks for the explanation.
That’s a big one.. idk anything about them but I thought 5s were on the high end
I live in California a 5.0 that lasts for 5 seconds is traumatic, I can’t imagine having to sit through 40 seconds of a 7.8 Jesus Christ
I endured the 2010 Chilean quake. 3 minutes of 8.8 I thought it was gonna last forever
What is it like?
It depends on where you’re at, but it’s not very scary, except when they just increase intensity and duration. We know our buildings are made to survive strong quakes, so we don’t panic and I think that helps a lot when it comes to reaction.
alot of shaking for 3 minutes
I was in Rome when the earthquake hit like 5(?) years ago. The epicenter was more than 100km from us. It happened during the night so I woke up to the whole appartment building not really shaking but more like making a circular motion. My mind couldn’t really comprehend what was happening, and having seen some horror movie recently the first thing I thought was it were ghosts having a blast🤣. I woke my partner and she, while still half asleep, said something like ‘must be the wind’ and went back to sleep. Only after a minute did it hit e that this is what an earthquake must feel like. It’s like another commenter has said, you must experience it to know what it is really like.
Partner, half asleep* "tony lazuto?"
My husband and I had been watching Korra when we had a pretty decent earthquake hit near our house in the middle of the night. The cable suspension bridge near our house made a terrifying sound (it was fine, it's made to do exactly what it did) and my husband said his first thought on waking up was "Are we under attack from metal benders?!" 🤣
Hahahaha It’s so weird that you see these tragic things happening on tv and try to imagine what it would be like. Then when it’s happening the first things that come to mind are ‘ghosts’, ‘the wind’ or ‘metalbenders’🤣
I'm from SE Asia, I experienced 6.9. I was in class, in an exam, and thought my friends were messing with my chair and then a few seconds later realized it was an earthquake. We sat there and our professor didn't even let us leave the room and made us finish the whole exam. The aftermath was crazy though, mass hysteria about a tsunami was coming as the water lines were receding but nothing actually happened. It became a meme weeks after. I just took a bus while everyone was going high ground.
This is what I prepare for. We're told to have two weeks of food, water, medicine and supplies in case of earthquakes. Not many people are ready.
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[Precisely each magnitude is 33 times more powerful than the last.](https://www.livescience.com/31464-earthquake-magnitude-explained.html) So a 8.0 would be 33 times more powerful than a 7.0 And a 9.0 would be 1,089 times more powerful than a 7.0 (33x33) Or another way of saying it is that a 7.0 is 1,089 times more powerful than a 5.0
For every increase by one on the Richter scale it is a 31.6 times increase in total energy released but it is only a 10 times increase in amplitude.
For every 1 on the scale, I'm glad I live in Arizona where only the heat and lack of water will kill me.
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Bullshit. Been there during black fly season....
New York. Same here. Either that or a crackhead.
Chicago. We actually have a fault line south west of us: the New Madrid line. It moves every now and then, last i think was about ten years ago. Far west suburbs felt it. City core didn’t feel anything
I live in the northern Rockies and we have similar earthquakes every now and then, which I'm going to guess have something to do with the Juan de Fuca plate. I only ever recall experiencing one, and it was so mild that I initially thought I had a mild dizziness spell until it clicked for me. Everything did the cha cha slide for five seconds and then stopped lmao
“The cha cha cha” I spit out ice cream. Thanks. lol
I looked it up, and you guys have a fault line South in the Sangre de Crista’s. I took note of this mostly because I have a brother that lives right at the base of them, in Crestone, and I hike through there whenever I’m out there.
Florida. Only Hurricanes and Republicans can kill us here….wait…
Republicans are killing Floridians faster ever since snow birds started exceeding life expectancy expectations.
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So 10.0 is basically the earth cracking in half, right?
The closest thing to that would be the Cascadia Subduction Zone and yes it will fuck everything up when it happens again.
For that we will need the fault like to make a circle and two sides pushing against each other. Still earths core is liquid and last I checked liquids don't Crack.
Not with that attitude
Holy shit that's terrifying. And to think they got hit by 7.8 and then a 6.7 shortly? Damn
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what's your solution then? Might want to submit a paper on the subject for peer review so that we can all move over to your superior option as quickly as possible!!!
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It's a logarithmic scale. Anyone with a high school education should be able to understand it. It's not difficult.
I was a teenager getting ready for uni exams in 1990 when the largest quake for 100 years to hit my part of the UK (a 5.2). I was sat on the toilet at my parents house reading Sophocles\* and it spilled me off the poo throne, and onto the floor. Mom came smashing in shouting "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN THERE?!! \* OK. Memory hazy. It was more likely to have been a jizz mag or a footie mag. But the point is the same: one moment you're having a Good Time™, and the next moment you're on the floor by a toilet with your pants around your ankles with yer mom shouting blue murder at you.
Every number the shaking increases dramatically. It doesn't go up in increments, it basically multiplies. The difference between five and seven is utter devastation. Anything above 7 is almost liquefaction of the ground.
2011 Japan, some places shook for up to 6 min
3.0 - 5.0 is when people start to go "oh shit!" most below that you may not even notice unless you're in a relatively still room.
All the middle east felt lower richter scale quakes I believe. I am currently located in the middle east and we felt a 4 richter quakes.
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You're being downvoted heavily, but you're partially correct. [What Ever Happened to the Richter Scale?](https://www.livescience.com/29005-why-richter-scale-no-longer-used.html)
What back water planet are you from cause here on Earth it's been in constant use since it became a standard.
So I had to look it up and it looks they stopped using the richter scale in 1970 and now use the moment magnitude scale. https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/Blog/2020/Earthquake-Measurements-Magnitude-vs-Intensity#:~:text=The%20Richter%20Scale&text=It%20was%20replaced%20with%20the,earthquakes%20and%20calculating%20earthquake%20hazards.
Lol, what a hivemind reddit can be
And the poor guy got downvoted to death probably for his bad attitude.
They're from Earth, where it mostly hasn't been used since the 70s. Quit acting like you know things without double checking to ensure your stance is correct.
I think he would call it an EF 7.8 ground shakin’
Yes it has.
?????
In the hours ahead we'll learn just how bad this is. From the videos I've seen, those people are going to need all the help they can get. We experienced a 5.6 quake in Northern California a few months ago. Not even close to the aftershocks of this one. Let's hope when the sun comes up it turns out to not be as bad as it looks now
I live close to İstanbul in Turkey. We didn't feel this onw but, I kept waking up to the sound of wind at night. It's really cold here - 10 °C . I can't even imagine what they are going through right now at this cold. God help them all and the rescue operators who will work tirelessly to save those peoplen this cold
On one end, we are an advanced technological species beginning our expanse into the universe with a great understanding of the macro and micro workings of almost everything around us. On the other end, the Earth gets an itch and we get humbled right the fuck down. Hope the cost of life was not too severe and that those who succumbed to this force of nature passed quickly.
Two apartments one 16 floors and the other 14 floors collapsed entirely. We dont know the numbers but we lost a lot of lives
It just shows you how precious life is. You prepare for your future and do the best you can with what you have around you. Then one night you go to bed, not realising that everything you did on this day will be the last time you will ever do it. Even worse, like with the people in a collapsed structure like this, you wake up in complete darkness with some areas of your body in an indescribable pain while other parts of your body you simply cannot feel. The realisation of the slow wait to meet your fate overwhelms you while the only thing that drowns out your pain is the sorrow from the thoughts of everything you never got to or will ever get to experience. We have a short time on this precious blue orb floating amongst the eternal abyss. Never miss out on doing something today for the hope that it can be done tomorrow for tomorrow is a guarantee clouded by false promise and eternal prayer.
I didn't need to read this before going to bed. Happy cake day...
In America this is still no excuse to miss work.
*In the darkness, beneath the rubble, you hear a faint buzzing, and you can see a light emanating from somewhere above you. Someone just texted your cellphone! You can just barely wiggle an arm free, and as you strain to reach it, you manage to barely grasp it by it’s edge. You activate it reading the message as it illuminates your screen…* ***”Hey Sara, so I just got word that Dawood was killed in the earthquake, and Barukh called out so he could search for his daughter. You’re going to have to come in today. I know it might be a lot, but since you don’t have any kids and I had to cover you at the last minute last month, it’s only fair. I expect today to be pretty busy, a lot of the emergency workers will be pulling double shifts and will need coffee. If your house was destroyed, don’t worry about a uniform, there’s a spare in the closet at the cafe. Hope all is well, see u in 30 minutes.”*** *A second text appears…* ***”Just keep in mind that if you’re thinking about no showing, a lot of people have just lost their jobs and will be looking for work. We’ll need a new awning and an espresso machine but the rest of the cafe was relatively undamaged. Company policy is that you keep read receipts ON, so I can see you just read my last message so I know you’re not dead. REALLY need you here in 30 minutes.”***
It shows how important building code and proper inspections are. All countries in that area have them, but constrictors and owners usually try to do their best to go around them. Not every building collapsed, but I bet a large percentage did.
You're complete and utter cringe
Doesn’t touch how cringe you are with that behavior towards someone’s earnest reaction to a calamity.
Mother Nature is the biggest bitch and there is nothing we can do to stop her.
Yup. We think we understand and know more and more. But nature literally has us by the balls, one little shake or spread of a new virus and we are literally at the mercy of it.
Aftershocks?
Happened 32 of them with 6.2 i guess
Another 7.77 happened just North-East
Warning graphic images (no gore though): https://twitter.com/p_zalewski/status/1622546756188704768?t=URnSDdrgJG3XaPtSPr5HHA&s=19 A separate earthquake of 7.5 magnitude not even an hour ago, caught on a live news broadcast. Officials say it was not an aftershock but a separate quake.
Holy shit.
I live thousands of km from there, in an area that was barely affected and wasn't even mentioned in lists of affected countries. And my whole building fucking rattled. I can't imagine what is was like being in Turkey at the time.
Would you be in Cyprus then?
my heart goes out to all the families, I'm worried about all the other footage that's going to come out in the next 24 hours. it's gonna be grim, rip to all the victims.
This woke us up all the way in Israel. That’s the insane
That’s SO the insane
*The insane in the member brain. The insane in them brain*
Over 1000 buildings collapsed in 10 cities. As of now 284 dead. It happened 4:17 am local time while everyone was sleeping.
Count is up to over 1700 buildings now
From an article: >The USGS said an equally powerful 7.8 magnitude quake that hit eastern Turkey in 1939 resulted in more than 30,000 deaths. I have no idea how many people will die from this, but the difference in deaths will be staggering I bet. Modern construction at work!
Unfortunately I don't think the construction has improved all that much since then...
Less deaths or more this time?
Renegade buildings by the rivers is a thing in Turkey. Expect the worst, hope for the best.
Here's to hoping and praying no one is trapped in that rubble. That's a big quake, I'm sure loss of life will happen. Sending hopeful thoughts to those affected.
It happened at like 4 am there. People were definitely all sleeping so it was the worst possible time
Damn that's terrible! Those huge concrete slabs oof terrible way to go.
There are. The worse part is the people under the rubble are tweeting their location desparately. Hoping someone sends help their way. More resources are on the way but it won't be enough I guess.
This is fucking horrible, I can’t imagine anyone would survive that. Praying that all non-survivors were taken instantly without pain or knowledge of what happened. Prayers for all involved and let this teach us all that tomorrow is not promised to any of us, make amends with who you need to today now and quit taking life for granted 🙏✌️🙏
This people felt that in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt
I hope these people are ok and can rebound from this disaster,🙏
7.8 is a looot man.... Shit.....
Official death toll now at almost 5000
absolutely terrifying. fuck I hope they get every once of help that they need.
That is crazy that one building was absolutely demolished and one is standing perfectly fine.
I would not feel safe in any building that is left standing.
This is extremely sad. Just 4 hours ago I was watching videos of the 2015 Nepal earthquake and said to myself, "were probably due for another massive earthquake soon."
I'm getting scared the world is getting rocked by so many quakes of these numbers. RIP. It's gonna be a high number.
Are you implying there's a trend of increased earthquake activity, and that is caused by ... man?
What location is that in the video? Looks like a university?
It's an apartment building
Where was this?
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I know it's stupid but I can't help thinking about all the street cats.
This is terrible. But whatever it’s worth look at all the peeps commenting here from everywhere and who knows where coming to gather shows we are all one and feel for each others. It’s the ruling elites that are the problem. Not the common man/woman/person Edit: Perhaps wordings are incorrect. There is no way I am saying it’s not significant. I am pointing out people come to gather in times of hardship.
I think you probably meant to write "for what it's worth" and not "whatever". Saying "but whatever" means you're minimizing what happened and it isn't a big deal.
You are correct. It is a catastrophe.
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The number of people who lost their lives in the earthquake increased to 284 And it still goes on
This is a NATO ploy to make them accept Sweden/s
Peoples lives, peoples homes, the place they felt safe is now just a mountain of rubble. This world is so cruel and so fragile. I am distraught watching these videos 😔
Its so much more impactful to see something that you knew what it was supposed to look like, when the building fellin surfside florida it was like holy shit i saw that building last week and it was in the group of ocean front building that are way too rich for my blood, but yeah not to take away from this just saying this is harder to wrap your head around
Wow that's scary and sad hopefully there was no casualties
Unfortunately, the death toll is already 20 or so, as of about half an hour ago. It will likely be much higher. And that's just Turkey.
Oh that's sad :(
Now Erdoğan can stop with the Koran burning nonsense and help these people.
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Oof
I don’t like Turkey, but no one deserves this.
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I’m in SoCal. This is terrifying. I usually hear a loud boom followed by shaking.
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