CASE STUDY SUMMARY

Case Study: Turkey and Syrian Earthquake Date:

Event Profile
Magnitude Enormous 7.8 Small
Speed of onset Rapid Quite quick Slow
Duration Long 80s Short
Areal extent Widespread Turkey and Syria Limited
Spatial predictability Random random Predictable
Frequency Frequent Not very frequent Rare

Facts
Country Profile
Economic Status Demographics

Turkey (MIC)- Turkey has some economic development with a Turkey has a somewhat stable government and looking to thrive
decently sized economy and a GDP per capita of 9661 dollars. with economic growth.

Syria (LIC)- Syria however has an extremely poor economy and a GDP Syria has been embedded in a civil war over the past decade and is
per capita of 533 dollars. very unstable.

What happened?
Magnitude / Location Time / Speed of onset / Duration

It occurred for 80s and happened at

The earthquake occurred in Southern
8.55pm.
Turkey/Northern Syria and had a
magnitude of 7.8
Tectonic situation (words) Tectonic situation (map)

The epicentre was just east of Ankara

and was very shallow.

Preparation / Warning?
What was in place in terms of mitigation, adaption & predictions?

Little of the earthquake was predicted due to earthquakes in general being very hard to predict.
Turkey and Syria did little to mitigate the damage and the Turkish government constantly lets builders not follow the earthquake guiding
codes to build buildings. They also don’t have warning sirens such as Japan and USA which caused more deaths.

Impacts
Headlines Details (and sources)
Short term High death toll At least 47000 people dead in Turkey
and Syria
High number of people An estimated 26 million need aid
needing aid because of the earthquake.

Long term

Response – Relief
Headlines Details (and sources)
Turkey Syria Earthquake People from around the world have contributed over 100
Appeal million pounds.
Jordan The country of Jordan has flown aircraft to aid the survivors
of the Earthquake
UN appeal The UN has requested 1 billion dollars to help the survivor
and people at risk

Response - Rehabilitation
Headlines Details (and sources)
UNICEF Providing aid and shelter for those still left on the street
Turkish Government Shutting down schools to allow people to live in the
buildings to stay off the streets
 Response - Reconstruction
Headlines Details (and sources)
Schools 98 elementary schools, 12 middle schools and 4 high
schools has since been rebuilt/repaired and reopened.
Humanitarian Aid 368 centres are continued to be used by reparations to
allow injured people help in the matter.

Park Model

Evaluation of the Response

Was the response timely / sufficient / appropriate / effective?
Was the response effective in modifying the event / modifying human vulnerability / modifying the loss burden?

The response while slow, was effective in helping people as a lot of funding from the general public as well
as organisations such as the UN which helped a lot of people get food, water and shelter as well as saving
the lives of many more people.

Other Information