"Gölcük is dead. The quake is one of the natural incidents that can hardly be predicted. Television showed a Greek team crying after they rescued a little girl. Both may have been part of a 250-year rupture cycle. Until now.It’s only the beginning of the second month of 2020, and we’ve already seen more tragedies and odd occurrences than any other year, which is causing people to once again believe that the world may be ending sooner than later.One of the latest occurrences includes a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey that created a very unsettling and bizarre phenomenon. The earthquake also provoked a peculiar episode; Images of the red water flowing from the ground into the river appeared on the Internet shortly after the earth stopped shaking. "At the resort town of Yalova we met a friend of Aydin's named Hakki Akyazi. His wife and son had not. The earthquake that was centred near Sivrice, Turkey also caused a series of aftershocks ranging from between 5.4 to 3.3 in magnitude. I returned to Turkey in late October. Many of the neighborhood coffeehouses they relied on for socializing were gone, replaced by scattered coffee tents. “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” To Air Final Season In Early 2021The Show Must Go On! He was just back from the hospital. Before this earthquake the only stretch of the main fault that had not broken in the 20th century extended from the city of Bolu, about 90 miles (185 kilometers) east of Gölcük, to the western end of the Sea of Marmaraâa distance of about 220 miles (354 kilometers). He was Mustafa Ãifttepe, one of seven people who had survived the collapse of the building. ""We have no idea what will happen to us," said his wife, Yücel. She had decided to extend her stay and had returned to Yalova for the night to pick up more clothes.When Hakki heard of the earthquake, he rushed to her building, which lay in ruins. I found Ä°smet Koyun again in a coffeehouse by the waterfront. Nicholas Ambraseys, a specialist in historical earthquakes at Imperial College in London, notes that 40 earthquakes of magnitude 7 and above had hit the Marmara region since the first century A.D.
"Heavy rain fell as a young second lieutenant, Selçuk Poyraz, led us across the ravaged base. They pointed to where they had lived. The four fault segments that broke on August 17 account for only about 70 miles (113 kilometers) of the 220 (354) at risk. Istanbul New Airport is located in the yellow earthquake zone. Looking back, he saw that a vast section of the former waterfront, including the park, had slumped into the gulf, sinking 30 feet (9 meters) or more.
I asked Aydin. " "I felt intrusive and helpless. As soon as they heard of the catastrophe, Ersin and his wife had caught the first flight available to Istanbul.Ersin translated his father-in-law's story: "I was in bed with my wife on the second floor when the shaking began. We watched the water lap into what had been the building's third floor. The second quake measured magnitude 7.1. A wall fell toward me, stopping two inches (five centimeters) from my nose. Officially pronounced with a … "What can I say to these people?" So at 3 a.m. on August 17, 1999, restless townspeople in Gölcük, Turkey, strolled in the park. It also depends on whether the fault segments beneath the Sea of Marmara break together or independently. Extending from eastern Turkey to Greece, the thousand-mile-long (1,609-kilometer-long) rip is very similar to California's infamous San Andreas Fault. Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah took to...Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, addressed the nation live today (28 August) at 8pm and many tuned in to...Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is making an announcement regarding the decision of the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO)...JUST IN: “Masjid Jamek Turned Into An Island”, KL Hit By Flash Floods After Heavy Rain!Watch: Perodua Kelisa Braves Through Waters That Flooded KL Like A Boss!Woman in Japan Leaves 2 Daughters In Car While She Went Drinking, Both Girls Die From Heatstroke“Little breast monster” M’sian YouTuber Body-Shamed After Posting Vacation Pictures In Bikini Funny, animated GIFs: Your favorite computer file type!
"It washes away the smell of death, which gets into everything. Images of red water flowing into the river appeared on the internet soon after the earth stopped shaking. I headed back to Gölcük, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) away, to see how people there had coped in the intervening months.The nightmare hadn't gone away.
May it be over." The dead crabs and jellyfish seen at Gölcük could have been killed by radon gas seeping from rock in the Earth's crust into the water just prior to the rupture.But there is much the scientists still do not understand, and much that disturbs them.
As he stood, an explosion boomed over the gulf. I just prayed and called for my son. In seconds, billionaires can become penniless. We clambered over twisted rebars and mud-caked chunks of concrete to the seven-story building where the 50 men had perished in the sunken café. The destruction of the infrastructure of one of the most industrialized regions of the country was "complete," said the general secretary of the Foreign Investors Association.When we reached the edge of Ä°zmit, the largest city hit by the earthquake, the smell of petroleum pervaded the air. On January 24, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Turkey. Now many traditional Turks have had to change their biases toward men who have long hair or earrings and women in miniskirts. Together they could create an earthquake as strong as magnitude 7.8âabout four times stronger than the August earthquake.A week after the earthquake I received permission from the Turkish Navy to walk where the North Anatolian Fault did some of its most spectacular damage: the Gölcük Naval Command Center, the largest naval base in Turkey. Many contractors, either through corruption or negligence, ignored building codes designed for earthquake resistance.