The Turkish authorities said that the death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit the country on Monday, February 6, rose to 36,187 people, and the death toll in two countries (Turkey and Syria) exceeded 42,000. This was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. : The situation is under control despite problems in managing disaster relief and disaster relief, while the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority reported that 4,300 aftershocks have occurred in the disaster area since the first earthquake . hit Turkey and neighboring Syria, destroyed cities in both countries, leaving many survivors homeless in near freezing temperatures.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged problems with the initial response to the 7.8-degree earthquake in the early hours of February 6, but said: “The situation is currently under control.”
United Nations authorities said: The rescue phase is drawing to a close and the focus is shifting to providing shelter, food and education in light of the suffering of the survivors. Here comes the big question, is the Japanese earthquake strategy valid in an app? Which?
The doctor explains. Mahmoud Al-Karyuti, a researcher specializing in seismology and monitoring, argues that “there are several steps that implement the Japanese strategy for dealing with the consequences of earthquakes: the first step is seismic risk assessment in the sense of knowing active faults and the location of tectonic plates in order to assess risks for all regions and determine the greatest activity that can take place in the study areas under consideration, as well as knowing the characteristics and features of buildings and structures in general and places where residents gather, make maps indicating seismically hazardous areas.
The second stage is the development of scenarios taking into account seismic hazard locations, as well as places where people and objects are congested, so that these risks can be applied to residential areas and know the magnitude of the seismic threat.
Al-Karyuti adds: “In addition, there are strategies for expanding cities and spreading them to less dangerous areas so that they focus on them and move away from active fault areas as much as possible, because seismic activity cannot be completely prevented. , but its risks can be reduced. There are very important measures, such as the development of engineering legislation to combat the consequences of earthquakes based on various engineering seismic studies, so that engineering standards and requirements must be adopted by interested parties, including building and engineering designers or contractors are regulated, and full compliance with these norms and measures, so that various structures resist the effects of earthquakes. There are other procedures related to buildings where seismic waves are suppressed within seismic activity by placing sensors or various engineering structures at the foundation level and other places, to make the building move in accordance with the seismic movements until these waves are suppressed.
This experience is very successful, as Japan is considered one of the areas where there is strong seismic activity, and these measures have been excellent at reducing risks, resulting in either no casualties within earthquakes, or a very small number of people falling. This strategy can be applied to many countries, including Turkey, Syria and regions with seismic activity, but Turkey has a good reputation in this field, as there are reasonable measures in the seismic risk assessment and monitoring processes, but in Syria and other regions, it can be applied there, but I do not I think that some measures have been taken in this area, we have done a lot of research and drawn a lot of maps of the most dangerous, the least dangerous and the least dangerous to the middle between them. Engineering legislation can be developed and we have experience in this area to develop it in some areas.
For his part, Abbas Sharaki, professor of geology and water resources at Cairo University, explains: “The countries of the world are at risk of earthquakes, but to varying degrees. Continental blocks, or what are also called continental plates or slices, and among these countries Turkey, behind it Syria, Iran, Cyprus, Greece and Italy follow in terms of danger, because they are on the verge of convergence of the African bloc with the Afro-Asian, so that every country in the world is at risk of earthquakes, and from here not every country can rise Countries take one and the same strategy, but each country has its own specifics. Japan has earthquake-related engineering legislation to be at the highest level of strictness, followed by Turkey to a lesser extent, while there are other countries such as Egypt who are not at the same risk, so why would his budget need to develop a similar law to counter a phenomenon that is usually not It does not occur with the same strength, so each country has its own procedures, taking into account the possibility of large earthquakes.
Shraky adds: “Egypt and other countries also have this legislation, but the problem with third world countries is that they don’t enforce this rationing, and this is happening in Egypt, despite the fact that it has adopted European legislation, given that there are European countries that are prone to earthquakes. This is in theory, but in practice. Arab countries apply their own legislation? No, this is not true. We appeal to these countries, including Turkey itself, which closes its eyes to some violations in construction, hence the great misfortune, since many buildings collapsed after the earthquake, and there are buildings that can collapse despite this is engineering legislation because they were built over faults ( Cracks in the Earth’s crust ), we have seen in Turkey the occurrence of large faults in which there was a displacement of about 3 meters, so any buildings in the area will collapse, while we saw the buildings that are left unscathed, which means that their engineering meets engineering standards, then non-compliance with these laws is mainly due to serious causes, including corruption.