(6 Feb 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Antakya, Turkey - 11 February 2023
1. Various aerials of destruction, excavators knocking down buildings, workers sifting through rubble in Antakya ++MUTE ++
HEADLINE: A year on: 5 things to know about the Turkey earthquake
ANNNOTATION: The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck on Feb. 6, 2023, and killed more than 53,000 people in southern Turkey.
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Narlica, Hatay province, Turkey - 12 January 2024
2. Various of tents along side of road
3. Various of earthquake victims inside tents
ANNOTATION: More than 600,000 survivors are still living in temporary shelters.
4. Various of unidentified remains section at earthquake victims cemetery
ANNOTATION: The cemetery for earthquake victims in the city of Antakya has a section for remains that have not yet been identified.
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Antakya, Turkey - 12 January 2024
5. Various of men praying in partially destroyed mosque
ANNOTATION: Some people are still worshipping in partially destroyed mosques.
6. Aerial of new government construction ++ MUTE ++
ANNOTATION: Criticized for weak enforcement of building codes, the government has pledged to deliver over 300,000 new homes in the region.
STORYLINE:
A year ago, a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, causing widespread destruction and the loss of over 59,000 lives.
The Feb. 6, 2023 quake struck shortly after 4 a.m. and lasted for 85 seconds. It was followed by more than 570 aftershocks within 24 hours — including a magnitude 7.5 temblor to the north of the original epicenter in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province.
According to the latest government figures released on Friday by Turkey's Environment and Urbanization Minister Mehmet Ozhaseki, some 680,000 homes either collapsed or were left too damaged to live in, leaving hundreds of thousands in desperate need of shelter.
Many people remain in temporary container homes, or even tents, for a second winter. The emergency agency AFAD said recently that some 689,000 people remain in container cities spread across the earthquake region.
The quake displaced some 3 million people and 11 provinces in Turkey were declared emergency zones.
The final count in Turkey reached 53,537 dead, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
Turkey strengthened building codes after the 1999 Istanbul quake but experts say that lax enforcement, poor planning and alleged irregularities since then aggravated the 2023 disaster. Also, use of substandard material and lack of proper inspections during Turkey’s construction boom in the past years made matters worse, according to experts.
A massive rebuilding effort is still trudging along a year later but many questions remain about the future of the devastated areas.
In the days after the earthquake, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to rebuild 319,000 new homes within the year, amounting to half the earthquake zone’s destroyed residences.
According to the government, 41,000 apartments and 5,000 “village houses” have been completed and are ready for occupation while 200,000 housing units are currently under construction.
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