Turkey is fighting one of the biggest disasters in its history. The 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred in 10 provinces centered in Kahramanmaraş and then the 7.6 earthquake at noon on the same day caused wounds that are difficult to heal.
TÜRKONFED: The financial damage of earthquakes is expected to be 84.1 billion dollars
According to the news published in Bloomberg HT, the Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TÜRKONFED) has prepared a report containing the financial damage projections of the earthquake disaster. Accordingly, the cost of the earthquake for the Turkish economy will be more than 84 billion dollars. The report was prepared with the methodology using Marmara Earthquake data.
shiftdelete.netAccording to the report, 72 thousand 663 lives were lost.
In the report published under the title of “The Disaster Status Report for the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake”, it was predicted that $70.75 billion would be housing damage, $10.4 billion in national income loss and $2.91 billion in workday loss. In addition, the report expects 72,663 casualties.
How is Japan preparing for an earthquake?
How does Japan, which we can describe as the biggest earthquake country, prepare its citizens and buildings for an earthquake?
shiftdelete.netThe number of buildings killed, injured, survived and destroyed in the earthquake!
- death toll: 24 thousand 617
- Number of injured: 80 thousand 278
- Number of buildings destroyed: 6 thousand 444
- unearthed from debris number of people: 72 thousand 879
- Total number of search and rescue personnel: 160 thousand
- Number of emergency health personnel: 14 thousand 429 – Belonging to the previous statement
- Number of additional physicians: 17 thousand 929 – Belonging to the previous statement
- Total number of health personnel: 143 thousand 829 – Belonging to the previous statement