The Polish army will help Turkey fight the effects of the earthquake that hit the country on Monday, said the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak. “Today we are sending medical staff from the Military Field Hospital in Wrocław, a total of 52 people, including doctors, nurses and paramedics,” wrote the head of the Ministry of National Defense in social media.
“The Polish Army will help Turkey in dealing with the effects of the earthquake. Today we are sending medical staff from the Military Field Hospital in Wrocław, a total of 52 people, including doctors, nurses and paramedics,” he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. Mariusz Blaszczak.
The head of the Ministry of National Defense informed that a mobile help point with equipment will also fly to Turkey.
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria
The epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Monday morning hit southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, was located in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras. Less than 12 hours later, a second 7.7-magnitude quake occurred several dozen kilometers to the north. Both phenomena were accompanied by a series of over 100 aftershocks.
The earthquake-affected region of south-east Turkey and north-west Syria it is seismically active and tremors occur frequently. However, the latter is the most powerful cataclysm of this type in this region in recent times. In 1999, an earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, killed 17,000-18,000 people. Measurements showed that the quake had a magnitude of 7.6.
Strong earthquake in Turkey and SyriaPAP
The deadliest earthquake in the history of seismic measurements was recorded in 1976 in the Chinese province of Tangshan. The official figures of the authorities spoke of 250,000 victims. They were probably greatly underestimated, because some sources gave the number of people killed as high as 650,000. The Tangshan cataclysm had an official magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter scale, although other measurements indicated as high as 8.2. 9.5 degrees had the strongest recorded quake in history, in 1960, in Chile. More than 1,650 people died then.
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