Whenever there is a major news story of some kind of horrific tragedy, it usually takes some time - at least several days - to begin to get the full scope of the disaster. That was the case with manmade disasters, such as September 11th, the Madrid Train Bombings, the London Bombings, or the several terrorist attacks in France (particularly Paris and Nice) over the years. It is also the case - probably even more the case - for natural disasters, like the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, or the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. So it is with this latest disaster, the horrific earthquake in Turkey.
As the headlines to the article (see link below) attest, this is one of the very deadliest earthquakes this century. Really, probably in recent history. Certainly, I cannot remember many earthquakes that could compare with this, both in terms of the damage, as well as the human scale of loss. On top of those who were killed, there are millions who have evidently been displaced by this unbelievably powerful earthquake, which again struck without warning in the wee hours of the morning, what must have seemed the middle of the night to many.
According to this article (again, see the link below), there have been a reported 8,000 people who have been reported killed as a result of the damage from this particular earthquake. Frankly, it is almost impossible to fathom such a thing happening so suddenly, without any prior warning.
Yesterday in one of the posts about the earthquake, I mentioned how Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had declared that this was the worst natural disaster in Turkey in almost one hundred years.
Just awful.
The earthquake in Turkey is one of the deadliest this century. Here’s why by Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Christian Edwards, Krystina Shveda and Henrik Pettersson, CNN Updated 5:17 PM EST, Tue February 7, 2023:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/middleeast/earthquake-turkey-syria-why-deadly-intl
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