turkey

Question 1

development

Answer 1

-turkey gdp per capita = 10,618, syrias = 726
- turkey HDI 0.84 (49), syria 0.58 (146)
-turkey literacy = 96%, syria = 86%
-turkey poverty rate = 1/3, syria = 90%

Question 2

cause

Answer 2

7.8
-focus 18km deep (shallow)
-epicentre 37km WNW of Gaziantep (near syria border)
-conservative

Question 3

social

Answer 3

-over 50,000 dead
-100,000 inured
-26mil in need of assistance in both countries
-1.5 mil homeless

Question 4

economic

Answer 4

• 345,000 apartments destroyed
  -160,000 buildings collapsed or badly damaged
  -no electricity
  -estimated 34 bil damage

Question 5

longer term (secondary and tertiary impacts)

Answer 5

• followed by 7.5 aftershock 2 days later
  -UN launched appeals totalling to about 1.25bil UK pounds
  -in turkey, 1 mil living in tents
  -in syria, 5 mil homeless
  -toxins like asbestos, mercury, silica released = more than 54,000 killed
  -landslides

Question 6

factors affecting vulenrabiltiy

Answer 6

building regulation not enforced
-not enough done since 1999 earthquake to make buildings more resistant (turkey)
-syria in war so already povery, weak infrastructure, lack of money spent towards disaster planning
-turkey at intersection of 3 plates
-lack of flexible hazard planning
-lack of initial politicised response
-lack of accessibility