USGS puts strength of Turkey's quake at 7.3

[Turborama]

Source: AFP

Agence France-Presse
Posted at 10/23/2011 8:02 PM |

WASHINGTON - US seismologists have put the strength of an earthquake that hit eastern Turkey early Sunday at 7.3.

The US Geological Survey said the epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 1041 GMT, was located 19 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of of the city of Van.

The depth of the epicenter was just 7.2 kilometers (4.5 miles), the USGS said.

The reading was based on the open-ended Moment Magnitude scale, now used by US seismologists, which measures the area of the fault that ruptured and the total energy released.

Read more: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/10/23/11/usgs-puts-strength-turkeys-quake-73

[Bosonic]

1. Magnitude 7.2 - EASTERN TURKEY

Magnitude 7.2
Date-Time

Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 10:41:21 UTC
Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 01:41:21 PM at epicenter

Location 38.628°N, 43.486°E
Depth 20 km (12.4 miles) set by location program
Region EASTERN TURKEY
Distances

17 km (10 miles) NNE (32°) from Van, Turkey
117 km (72 miles) N (349°) from Hakkari, Turkey
128 km (80 miles) SSE (163°) from Karakose (Agri), Turkey
194 km (120 miles) SSW (207°) from YEREVAN, Armenia

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usb0006bqc/#details

[MineralMan]

2. I went to Van once when I was stationed in Turkey in the USAF.

There will be lots and lots of property damage from this quake. Building construction standards are very low there.

[Raschel]

3. Four mile depth? Very shallow!

[Bosonic]

4. 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Turkey, 50 reported injured

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=quake-hits-se-turkey-2011-10-23

Although that may be an underestimate:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Loss of life is expected to be 500-1000

earthquakereport.com

Update: At this moment there are reports of more than 23 fatalities and more than 50 injuries, but the number will certainly increase the next hours. 25 apartment blocks and 1 student residence destroyed in Ercis with many people trapped.

Update: Town of Bitlis has also reported some destroyed buildings (Bitlis is approx. 100 km from the epicenter). We expect the dead toll in the many villages in between to become very high too.

:(

http://earthquake-report.com/2011/10/23/very-strong-dangerous-earthquake-in-eastern-turkey/
over the next day or so, this will be the best link for updated info

[Celefin]

5. Comforting to know Turkey is going for all over nuclear power

What could possibly go wrong?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. 33 aftershocks between 2.9 and 5.6

yikes

[defendandprotect]

8. 7.2 quake in Turkey kills 85, collapses buildings

Source: AP

7.2 quake in Turkey kills 85, collapses buildings

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and sparking widespread panic as it collapsed dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete.

Tens of thousands of residents fled into the streets running, screaming and trying to reach relatives on cell phones. As the full extent of the damage became clear, desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare hands, trying to rescue the trapped and the injured.

Turkey's state-run television TRT said a group of inmates escaped from a prison after the earthquake struck. It gave no other detail and it was not immediately known how many had fled.

"My wife and child are inside! My 4-month-old baby is inside!" CNN-Turk television showed one young man sobbing outside a collapsed building in Van, the provincial capital.







Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/7-2-quake-turkey-kills-85-collapses-buildings-170134168.html

[DesertFlower]

9. so many earthquakes.

[defendandprotect]

10. Global Warming's glacier melting is creating more earthquakes -- and more severe

earthquakes as pressure on the tectonic plates shifts.


That's one of the reasons by the government in Fukushima had wanted to close

down their nuclear reactors -- they were only built to withstand 7.1 earthquakes

and Japanese scientists were reporting increasing seismic activity on this earthquake-

prone island! W sent a team to convince them otherwise and government was changed.

Imagine the pain and suffering that could have been avoided for Japan and the world had

these reactors been shut down!


Earthquakes also generate volcanic activity --


We here in US need to be fighting the building of a new generation of nuclear reactors

being pushed by Obama -- and we need to fight to shut down the existing 103 reactors across

our 50 states. May make the difference between "a whimper or a bang" -- !!


Global Warming will continue to bring us increasingly chaotic weather --

Right now we are only feeling the effects of our human activity up to about 1960!!

Those effects will increase -- severely.

[Turborama]

11. Turkey earthquake leaves as many as 1,000 people feared dead

Many hundreds of people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey, destroying scores of buildings and leaving many victims trapped in the rubble.

Scientists from Turkey's Kandilli earthquake institute said that up to 1,000 people may have lost their lives given the force of the 7.2-magnitude quake, which struck at 1.41pm local time (11.41am BST), and given the often shoddy construction standards in the mountainous area near Turkey's border with Iran.

The US Geological Survey said last night an aftershock of magnitude 6.1 also struck the area. The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited the area and said 138 people were confirmed dead in the towns of Van and Ercis.

In Ercis, a town of about 75,000 people, up to 80 buildings collapsed, including a student dormitory, and hospitals reported receiving about 1,000 casualties. In Van, at least 10 buildings were razed. TV footage showed distraught relatives waiting by a collapsed eight-storey building which had shops on the ground floor.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/23/turkey-earthquake-up-to-1000-feared-dead