Earthquake

Citation

(2005), "Earthquake", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 14 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2005.07314bac.004

Earthquake

2 July 2004Turkey

Eighteen people were killed and 27 injured when an earthquake hit remote villages in the eastern Turkish province of Agri today, devastating the local stone and earth houses. Soldiers worked with residents to rescue people trapped in the rubble and set up tents and mobile kitchens for those made homeless, Anatolian news agency said. Istanbul’s Kandilli Observatory said the quake measured 5.1 on the Richter scale. An official at the local governor ’s office said the village of Yigincal, with about 100 houses, suffered severe damage in the quake, which struck three villages in Dogubayazit district near the Iranian border at 0130 hrs (1830, UTC, July 1). There have already been several aftershocks. “Work is continuing on clearing away the rubble. There is also damage in other villages, but there are only slight injuries there,” an official said. Agri Governor Huseyin Yavuzdemir told CNN Turk television he did not think the death toll would rise. “The search and rescue is finished… There is no one in the rubble. These are not buildings that can withstand earthquakes, they are made of earth and stone. Some of the houses are made of concrete and those are fine,” Yavuzdemir said.

2 July 2004. At least 19 people were killed and 31 injured by an overnight earthquake in north-eastern Turkey. The tremor hit three villages in the province of Agri, near the border with Iran. A local government official said today that one of the villages had suffered severe damage. Emergency workers are trying to clear away the rubble. The quake had a magnitude of 5.0, according to preliminary reports. The number of dead rose from a reported 16 people earlier, even though the local governor had said at the time that he did not expect casualties to increase.