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7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye
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- sedatk 4y agoIt was followed by another 6.7 which is already significant by itself. Devastating news.
- patrickdavey 4y agoHaving lived through the Christchurch quake, this was the thing I hadn't properly appreciated. It's a sequence, so, you can expect literally thousands of quakes after a big one like this. It's completely and utterly headwrecking! Every time one happens you don't know whether it's going to build into a big one. My heart goes out to them.
- singularity2001 4y agoAnd by a strong 7.5 at 10:24 UTC!
- sedatk 4y agoYes, just terrible.
- nobrains 4y agohttps://twitter.com/search?src=typed_query&q=Earthquake https://twitter.com/search?src=typed_query&q=Earthquake Then go to videos tab.
- gorkemcetin 4y agoYou may want to use the word “deprem” as you search for media/news.
- csomar 4y agoThis was felt across the region (Isreal, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, some places in Egypt). Anywhere one can get news of what's happening in Turkey? The epicenter of the quake seems close to a large city. (I know it's like 4-5 AM there now)
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- yazzku 4y agohttps://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/06/28/turkey-is-now-turkiye-what-other-countries-have-changed-their-name https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/06/28/turkey-is-now-...
- plantain 4y agoThat's the official name
- sn0wf1re 4y agoTürkiye is now the official UN name of the nation formerly known as Turkey. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes-name-to-turkiye-as-other-name-is-for-the-birds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes...
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- murrain 4y ago"Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913
- mooseknees 4y ago[flagged]
- mabbo 4y agoThat is the country's legal name. They've requested the world spell it that way. It would have taken you a moment to Google that before posting and looking foolish.
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- gorkemcetin 4y agoI have never seen an earthquake covering such a wide area. I confirm collapsing buildings in at least 5 cities. There is a big chaos on social media as well - many people asking for help since they are stuck under debris. What a disaster!
- dylan604 4y agoAre you saying that people are asking for help in general or that the actual people stuck inside collapse buildings are using their socials in search of help? What kind of infrastructure is in place that would survive to allow network connectivity for people to access socials to ask for help?
- dizhn 4y agoIt's a common sight for one bulding to be standing virtually undamaged while the one next to it is a pile of rubble. Infrastructure is fine. At least enough of it is. I had no trouble calling people in the area minutes after it happened.
- selcuka 4y agoApparently mobile connectivity is intact in some places, but data is generally down. People are calling/texting their friends who in turn post it on social media: https://twitter.com/search?q=deprem https://twitter.com/search?q=deprem
- mrtksn 4y ago> actual people stuck inside collapse buildings are using their socials in search of help? This one. On the previous large quake in the country, the networks collapsed and there was a huge public uproar because the network operators were claiming disaster readiness in their ads, even showing drone swarms flying to the disaster area to provide network services. Maybe they actually hardened their networks but in general, the internet connectivity seems more resilient as the regular phone calling was restored much later than the internet connectivity last time. This time there are many tweets and instagram stories of people posting text, selfies and videos from under the rubble, together with their address, their condition and the number of people in the house. Here are a few examples: https://twitter.com/lilalayd/status/1622604576019849216 https://twitter.com/lilalayd/status/1622604576019849216 https://twitter.com/Erhan_Dogan23/status/1622477226754064389 https://twitter.com/Erhan_Dogan23/status/1622477226754064389
- Overtonwindow 4y agoAl Jazeera has a bit right now on the earthquake in Turkey.
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- helf 4y agoI have a friend in Turkey. They haven’t been online for an hour or so. Hoping they are ok :(
- jjtheblunt 4y agoIt’s before dawn so maybe not being online is just normal, but yeah it is scary
- helf 4y agoI normally would agree but he is usually online at these times due to work schedule etc :/
- jjtheblunt 4y agoHope it’s ok. We too await hearing about a team member there
- helf 4y agoStill nothing on my end. How about your team member?
- jjtheblunt 4y agoJust messaged he’s ok. Hoping your side ends up ok too !
- helf 4y agoYep. Talked to him this morning. He was actually far enough north from the epicenter that it he didn’t even feel it heh. Glad yours is Ok too!
- jjtheblunt 4y agooh cool!
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- selcuka 4y agoI don't believe this is really the right time to post a stingy comment, even if it has a point.
- samuria 4y agoWhat an insensitive comment.
- thyrsus 4y agoThat's a criticism of the government, not the people. They are hoping policy will change and they'll be able to help.
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- dang 4y agoI realize that these passions exist for profound and longstanding reasons, but please do not post nationalistic flamebait to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- culi 4y agoIt was about 4am in Turkey when this happened so I doubt we'll get many videos of the earthquake in action and it'll mostly be videos of the aftermath
- dizhn 4y agoI think we'll get quite a few because it lasted so long.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoTragic news... hopefully the local emergency services were housed in buildings that are built well.
- anonu 4y agoThis guy somehow predicted it? https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuuR27JyegFppcM_TEPuA&s=19 https://twitter.com/hogrbe/status/1621479563720118273?t=uZuu... Lucky or good?
- jacquesm 4y agoThe one doesn't rule out the other. If they can do this again it would be great news in a way because any kind of reliable indicator of an imminent earthquake would save many lives.
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- cjensen 4y agoThat's not a prediction that can be evaluated. For example, I could say "there will be a 7+ magnitude quake somewhere in the Pacific Rim tomorrow" and if I publish the same prediction every day it won't be long until my prediction is true. I might even be right the very first time. A real prediction should include exact time period, magnitude, and geographic area. And every prediction made must be documented. This lets you do two things: first it lets you clearly decide which predictions came true. Second, we can look at historic probabilities for the predicted quake and evaluate the chances of blind guessing being correct for that exact set of predictions. In this particular instance, if you look at the predictions made on his twitter stream you'll find that he's clearly a quack who predicts stuff constantly. Not super surprising he got one right. EDIT: Also... surprise! There was a foreshock a couple of hours before he made the prediction.
- csomar 4y agoHe does have some predictions with time but yeah, being vague (while having lots of knowledge) can make you seem prophetic. > EDIT: Also... surprise! There was a foreshock a couple of hours before he made the prediction. He is probably more knowledgeable than the average person and has access to latest data on earthquakes.
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- jacquesm 4y agoThis is really bad. The timing couldn't be worse, pretty much everybody was at home. The videos that came out so far are devastating, whole apartment buildings leveled with everybody in them, people trapped under the rubble and calling out for help. Given the timing and the magnitude the first estimates of casualties seem surprisingly low, I really hope that they are right but there are some major cities right in the middle of this. Ugh.
- emodendroket 4y agoIf entire apartment buildings are collapsed I doubt the current casualty figures are going to be the ultimate ones.
- layer8 4y agoThe 1999 Izmit earthquake (similar magnitude, different region) had 17000 deaths. Hopefully less this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Turkey
- jacquesm 4y agoI remember that one. Lots of people here in NL lost family then. NL is home to 400K+ people with Turkish roots.
- in_cahoots 4y agoIn my experience initial reports being low doesn’t necessarily translate into final casualty accounts. When the entire infrastructure is destroyed (see Haiti, the 2004 Christmas tsunami) counting the number of dead is much harder and isn’t the top priority. On the flip side, I’ve often found that ‘missing person’ reports can overcount the number of casualties. Again, when infrastructure is destroyed or when there’s a locally-devastating disaster it’s hard to get an actual account of who was actually in the area when disaster struck.
- jacquesm 4y agoI just looked at some of the photographs, the imagery is absolutely devastating. I can't imagine < 1000's of dead.
- elkos 4y agoGreek here, the weather is snowy over here as it is in Turkey last few days. I can't even fathom the idea of staying out in the cold. My thoughts are to the people affected.
- LinuxBender 4y agoHere [1] is a youtuber that does a decent job covering these and predicting where the next wave will hit. Apparently yesterday he predicted this one would be a 6.0 and just to the west. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_MLd6EsvwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_MLd6EsvwM [video][33 mins]
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThe name can still be Turkey in English, kind of like how we can say Germany and not Deutschland…
- personjerry 4y agoTurkey has been standardizing its name in every language as Türkiye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Official_name_change
- earthboundkid 4y agoAnd we should ignore that because we speak English and they don’t.
- personjerry 4y agoThe word isn't an English word... Do you call Beijing "Peking" as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing
- zaroth 4y agoOnly when I’m ordering their local style duck!
- emodendroket 4y agoSure it is. When you take a French course they have you learn the name "Etats-Unis" (or "Angleterre" or "Australie" or wherever you're from) as a French word along with all the others.
- nurettin 4y agoIronically, Turks call it "pekin".
- poulpy123 4y agoI called it Pékin for years and as far as I know the pronunciation is closer to the Chinese name than Beijing
- pyuser583 4y agoOh wow, that’s terrible. My spellchecker needs to be updated because it doesn’t want me writing “Turkiye.”
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- midoridensha 4y ago"Turkey" is the correct spelling in English. The Turkish government doesn't get to dictate what their country is called in other languages.
- rippercushions 4y agoThey can ask politely though, and spellings and names do change over time.
- midoridensha 4y agoThey can ask, but their request is stupid. The English language does not have any kind of facility for umlauted characters.
- jcranmer 4y agoHow naïve of you. (Although, technically, that's a diaeresis, not an umlaut.)
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- kyriakos 4y agoA nuclear power plant is being constructed near this area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant
- mlindner 4y agoWhich isn't a concern as nuclear power plants are almost always designed to be resistant to earthquakes, even in non-earthquake prone areas.
- kyriakos 4y agoRussian nuclear plant in Turkish earthquake zone sounds like a recipe for disaster.
- ziml77 4y agoHow so? I understand the dangers of being in a place that experiences earthquakes, but I don't understand the significance of the nuclear plant being Russian or the earthquake zone specifically being in Turkiye.
- kyriakos 4y agoThe damage the earthquake caused even on new buildings is a good indication of how badly standards are followed in Turkey.
- bamboozled 4y agoMeanwhile Russia continues it stupid war Ukraine…when something this shit happens. It’s a shame we can’t let out differences go.
- mikrotikker 4y agoYou think its about differences? It's about oil and gas. Nothing gets in that way of that.
- bamboozled 4y agoThis is an unnecessarily vague comment. Either way, if it wasn't about differences then we'd either just share access to the resources we need, and if it wasn't for differences, there would be no way to justify the war? Why would Russian invade Ukraine for gas and oil, when all the gas and oil is already in Ukraine.
- mikrotikker 4y agoBecause US corps like Shell were there setting up to take it.
- scotty79 4y agoAnd Turkiye is trading with Russia and blocking accession of new NATO members. Harsh winter in Russia (while Europe is downright toasty) and now this. I'm glad I'm an atheist because those events would reinforce my faith if I had one.
- culi 4y agoNew York and San Bernandino just got hit by some much smaller earthquakes as well... Is it possible they are they somehow connected?
- tamaharbor 4y agoI am old enough to remember when it was called Turkey.