The biggest disaster since the 1939 earthquake
On the one hand, the Turkish authorities have reported the death of 2,921 people, as well as 15,834 injuries, as reported by the president of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), Yunus Sezer, reports the Anatolia agency. AFAD calculates that more than 6,200 buildings have been completely destroyed, mainly as a result of the 7.4 earthquake that shook the country at dawn and a subsequent earthquake, already at noon, which reached magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the event as “the biggest disaster since the 1939 earthquake”, which left more than 30,000 dead. The authorities estimate that there have been more than a hundred aftershocks from the first major earthquake.