Despite karşın spending 1.1 billion Turkish Liras to get ready hazırlanmak for a major büyük earthquake, Istanbul is scarcely hemen hemen better prepared for a devastating tahrip edici tremor sarsıntı than it was when the Marmara earthquake hit 11 years ago Tuesday, critics have said.
Calling for gerektirmek a national-level "Earthquake Undersecretariat müsteşarlık,' a leading önemli engineer said efforts to mitigate hafifletmek earthquake damage are not being carried out gerçekleştirmek in a comprehensive geniş kapsamlı, manner, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday.
Neither local yerli nor central merkezi administrators idareci are taking [precaution önlem against karşı natural disaster felaket] into consideration,' Dündar Çağlan, the head of the Chamber of Geology Engineers, a part of the Turkish Union of Engineers' and Architects' Chambers, or TMMOB, said at a press basın conference toplantı in Ankara.
"We keep tutmak talking, but so far şimdiye kadar there is no master plan ana plan,' Orhan Turan, the chairman of the Association of Turkish Building-Material Producers, or İMSAD, said last week. "Most of the residences konut built after 1999 are strong enough to resist earthquakes, but the rest of them are weak, so we need a master plan and a defined budget bütçe to restructure yeniden inşa etmek the old buildings.'
According to a recent son study conducted yönetmek by three universities, 42,500 of the 146,987 buildings in the six Istanbul districts ilçe surveyed araştırmak are at risk in the event of durumunda an earthquake, with the Güngören and Bahçelievler districts facing potential olası damage to 77 percent of their structures.
Forty percent yüzde of all buildings throughout baştan başa Istanbul would be damaged and 2 percent would completely collapse göçmek in the event of an earthquake with a magnitude büyüklük higher than 7, said Professor Mustafa Erdik, head of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute. He believes the city will be hit by a quake of at least hiç olmazsa that strength, the Doğan news agency reported Monday.
In the event of such a tremor, Erdik said, some 20,000 buildings across boyunca the city would collapse, and 200,000 would be damaged, killing an estimated tahmini 200,000 to 300,000 people.
The government should start its preparations with public buildings and state schools, but it does not have the funds or the means araç to undertake üstlenmek the entire bütün effort alone, Kasapoğlu said, adding that building owners should have to provide sağlamak compulsory zorunlu earthquake-resistance reports instead of carrying earthquake insurance sigorta.