By Sedat LAÇİNER, PhD It is not the first time that Turkey has faced an earthquake disaster... Earthquake, like rain, like snow; a fact of Turkish lands... one of the most common events we encounter in our daily lives... Almost all of our lands are on fault lines and tens of thousands of earthquakes are recorded every year in our country... An earthquake of magnitude 4 and above happens almost every day... According to earthquake records, there have been at least 23 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 and above in our lands since the 1500s. In other words, there have been approximately 5 major earthquakes every 100 years, which causes a major earthquake on average every 20 years. Moreover, some of them are earthquakes that cause great loss of life. For example, in the Great Erzincan Earthquake of 27 December 1939, 33,000 people lost their lives, 100,000 were injured… More than 116,000 houses were destroyed in this earthquake… The earthquake was 7.9 and it was definitely a big ea...
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