Türkiye’s Marmara area, which is house to the nation’s largest metropolis Istanbul, is likely one of the finest monitored on the planet for seismic exercise, in line with a senior Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) official.
“When we look at the seismicity and monitoring of the region, I can proudly say this: The Marmara region is perhaps one of the best-monitored regions in the world,” AFAD’s head of earthquake and danger discount Orhan Tatar instructed Demirören News Agency (DHA).
“I can say that it is one of the best regions where seismic activity is monitored in the most intense and effective way with different methods,” he added.
Tatar stated that the AFAD presently has round 262 earthquake remark stations within the area, in addition to deep seismometer gadgets in each the east and west of the Marmara Sea.
“In other words, we have sensors placed at a depth of approximately 300 meters (985 feet) underground and monitoring systems with different sensors at different depths that we place at every 100 meters,” Tatar stated.
“We have some monitoring networks where we can track small crustal movements. In addition to these, we have a number of sensors, which we call strain gauges, with which we can monitor the activity on the fault that we think will cause this earthquake.”
Tatar stated the AFAD has an earthquake monitoring and analysis heart working 24/7 inside its earthquake division.
“This is truly a place where our country’s pulse is kept and monitored in terms of earthquakes,” he added. “We currently have 1,145 earthquake recording stations in our country. This number will reach 1,185 by the end of the year, and we plan to increase this number to over 1,200 in the near future. In this sense, our country perhaps has the largest seismic observation network in Europe.”
Tatar additionally spoke in regards to the significance of intervention and evacuation points in a attainable earthquake in Istanbul.
“While preparations are being made against a possible earthquake in Istanbul, the AFAD, like all institutions of our state, continues its work intensively regarding Istanbul on issues that fall within its area of responsibility,” Tatar stated. “One of these is the intervention aspect, the other is the evacuation issue, which is very important.”
Tatar stated that evacuation plans for Istanbul are “very healthy and feasible,” however they have to be in a method that may discover a response on the sphere.
“In this regard, these studies are being carried out intensively within our AFAD Istanbul Provincial Directorate, together with all our stakeholders, especially with all our institutions that are stakeholders in the Türkiye Disaster Response Plan,” Tatar stated.
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