Massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake In Turkey
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i wouldnt be surprised if it reached 50K, the quake affected urban areas with a total population of 13.5 million, and it happened when everyone was asleep.
Wouldn't surprise me - they've probably got to "about" 20% of the people affected so far - so 50K is unfortunately a very likely outcome especially as it is going to be challenging for anyone who has survived but in poor health.
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and as far as i can tell all attention is focused on the large cities, nobody can do anything for the poor souls in villages small towns etc. They must be left on their own luck.
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With some or the affected cities not reached yet and cut off by road.. it’s likely gonna be higher.
Hatay for example just doesn’t exist anymore, no rescuers have arrived.
I feel we can’t even comprehend the number of casualties :/.
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In hatay there are 2 Greek special teams helping out, already rescued 4 kids and 3 adults.
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Thank god, I’m glad people have arrived.
You do realise that islands dont actually float ?
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Wouldn't that be fun! We could mount an outboard on the UK and move it to a warmer climate.But the plates are moving. Africa is sort of heading roughly towards us while we are being pushed away from Iceland. The net effect is that France is going to get changed out of all recognition and the UK will be just smeared out as a long series of small islands running roughly East to West. We actually survive a pretty long time, but the end is not good.
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Villages and small towns, may actually fair better. Less high rise buildings and probably smaller houses overall. If there is a collapse they probably have the man power and equipment to clear some of it themselves, to rescue people. Earthquakes are pretty common in the reigon so they may have adapted their homes to deal with it like having "light" roofs.
Though hospital access would be an issue.
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The Izmit quake resulted in over 18k dead, I wonder if this will surpass that
Without knowing the possible reason(s) for the throttling, or who is actually responsible - Twitter themselves or another party in the "chain" between service (twitter) and end-user.
It could be entirely possible it's actually the Turkish telecoms / internet providers that may have been requested to throttle traffic to twitter to prevent saturation of their available bandwidth in an effort to ensure there is adequate connectivity available for use by search teams, crisis management, the list goes on.
People are being very quick to jump onto the finger-pointing band-wagon, without giving a moment's consideration for what would happen if the digital telecommunications infrastructure within Turkey becomes so overwhelmed by people spamming twitter that it prevents the emergency services from using it for communication and coordination.
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Using Twitter to hate on ppl makes them want to block Twitter even more, so... it's their fault.
IMO Twitter should be blocked permanently worldwide as it's basically 90% hate. Then nobody would rely on it.
IMO Twitter should be blocked permanently worldwide as it's basically 90% hate. Then nobody would rely on it.
It's Erdogan, he's done it before, time and time again. He does this to stop "bad press" against him, he has blocked Twitter and Youtube before for multiple reasons. It's extremely selfish. He doesn't care about the Turkish people, he cares about his presidency and reputation.
EDIT: an example for you:
Academic detained over criticism of Turkey’s post-earthquake response - Turkish Minute
A Turkish academic has been detained due to his comments on social media criticizing the way the government has been handling search and rescue efforts following two powerful earthquakes that hit the country’s Southeast on Monday, the Birgün daily reported.
www.turkishminute.com
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Spot on.
It's Erdogan, he's done it before, time and time again. He does this to stop "bad press" against him, he has blocked Twitter and Youtube before for multiple reasons. It's extremely selfish. He doesn't care about the Turkish people, he cares about his presidency and reputation.
EDIT: an example for you:
Academic detained over criticism of Turkey’s post-earthquake response - Turkish Minute
A Turkish academic has been detained due to his comments on social media criticizing the way the government has been handling search and rescue efforts following two powerful earthquakes that hit the country’s Southeast on Monday, the Birgün daily reported.
I agree he's a douchebag and definitely does not show a great deal of care for the Turkish people, however that does not automatically translate into "he's limiting twitter traffic so people can't be mean about him".
What "bad press" has there been about him since the EQ happened?
My supposition that traffic could have been restricted to / from Twitter since at a time like this it is undoubtedly one of, if not the highest contributor of internet traffic in Turkey right now and it would not be the least bit surprising or unreasonable to have to limit that to ensure a minimum level of connectivity for Emergency Services and Co-ordination.
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Just watching the news and they're talking about the Turks had an 'Earthquake Tax' imposed in 1999, to build a fund for the rescue efforts from the after effects of a large quake. Seems now its needed, the Govt are saying there's a lack of resources.
People aren't happy!