Turkey/Syria Earthquake 2023

Question 1

When was this?

Answer 1

6th Feb 2023

Question 2

What is Turkey’s geographic position?

Answer 2

Lying partly in Asia and Europe

Question 3

Where are the most populated areas?

Answer 3

Coastlines

Question 4

Why are the most populated areas at coastlines?

Answer 4

Tourism and trade

Question 5

What does the Gini Index show?

Answer 5

Inequality

Question 6

What is Turkey’s Gini Index?

Answer 6

41.9% in 2018

Question 7

How big is the economy on a scale?

Answer 7

19th

Question 8

How many people originally estimated to have died 3 days later?

Answer 8

21k died

Question 9

How many people are estimated to have died a year on?

Answer 9

55k died

Question 10

What was the magnitude of the earthquake?

Answer 10

7.8

Question 11

How many were estimated to have been affected?

Answer 11

4 million

Question 12

What was the response time like emergency relief?

Answer 12

Considered too slow

Question 13

Where did it struck?

Answer 13

Nurdagi and Gaizanteo

Question 14

What plate is it on?

Answer 14

Destructive plate boundary

Question 15

What were the aftershocks like?

Answer 15

So bad considered its own earthquake

Question 16

What is an earthquake that we can compare Turkey with?

Answer 16

Japan 2024

Question 17

Why can we compare the 2?

Answer 17

As Japan were able to organise and respond and is a leader in disaster risk reduction and preparedness unlike Turkey

Question 18

How many people died in the Japan earthquake?

Answer 18

55 deaths compared to Turkey’s 55,000

Question 19

Why was Turkey’s aid complicated?

Answer 19

Due to the Syria civil war

Question 20

How many people were injured?

Answer 20

130k people

Question 21

How many children faced an increased risk of poverty?

Answer 21

2.5 million people

Question 22

What does Turkey host?

Answer 22

Largest number of refugees in the world according to UNHCR

Question 23

How many buildings like schools and hospitals were completely destroyed?

Answer 23

200k

Question 24

What was severally disrupted in NW Syria?

Answer 24

Access to essential healthcare

Question 25

What caused 40 fires in 2023?

Answer 25

Record scotching temperatures

Question 26

What are construction amnesties?

Answer 26

A fee to not have to keep up with regulations

Question 27

In 2018, How many buildings that were constructed in violation of regulations?

Answer 27

50%

Question 28

What did the UN and its agencies deploy?

Answer 28

Disaster assessment experts, search and rescue, emergency relief

Question 29

What did WHO send?

Answer 29

Health supplies to reach 400,000 people impacted by the earthquake

Question 30

What did the UN WFP provide?

Answer 30

Food assistance and has reached almost 1.7m people in the 2 countries

Question 31

How many people were left homeless?

Answer 31

1.5m

Question 32

How much did the UN release from its Central Emergency Response fund?

Answer 32

$50 million

Question 33

What was the mitigation stage like?

Answer 33

Turkey set out stricter building laws, however there were construction amnesties

Question 34

What was the preparedness stage like?

Answer 34

Warnings of the earthquake Earthquake drills held every year

Question 35

What was the response stage like?

Answer 35

Heavily criticised due to people left to fend for themselves in the hours following the quake.

Question 36

What was the recovery stage like?

Answer 36

Government launched a initiative aimed at getting people temp paid jobs

Question 37

How many people did this initiative time to help?

Answer 37

10,000 people

Question 38

How much did this earthquake cost the government?

Answer 38

$103 billion