Turkish newspaper: "The Kahramanmaraş earthquake is just a rehearsal". And the devastating earthquake will be in Istanbul

The Turkish newspaper "Hurriyet" reported that the earthquake expected to occur, according to experts, in the city of Istanbul, will exceed those recorded in the southeast of the country, and will carry catastrophic economic and social consequences.
The newspaper wrote on Friday: "According to seismologists, the expected Istanbul earthquake will outstrip those of Kahramanmaraş in terms of the devastation it will cause, as well as the economic and social consequences. In other words, the earthquake in Kahramanmaraş is almost a rehearsal for the Istanbul earthquake."

Istanbul reportedly has 1164000,4,5 buildings and 3.3 million apartments, each housing an average of <>.<> people.

With an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 or more, 13,492,39 buildings are expected to be severely damaged, 325,136,746 buildings severely damaged, 300,963,<> buildings moderately damaged, and <>,<>,<> buildings lightly damaged.

"In an earthquake scenario of 7.5 or higher, the fact that the number of apartments expected to suffer severe and severe damage is more than 211000,1 gives an idea of the losses that the apartments will incur with an average of 3.255 people, in Istanbul there are 1980,538 buildings built before 1980. Of these, 2000,376 were built between 2000 and <>, and <>,<> were built after <>.

After the Kocaeli earthquake in 1999, 70 percent of the buildings were built in Istanbul, before 2000. The fact that 30 percent of them were built after 2000 does not mean that they are unsafe.

"During the Kahramanmaraş earthquake, we also saw luxury complexes built a few years ago as 'earthquake-resistant' and inhabited by hundreds of people. Some of the buildings that were called earthquake-resistant residential complexes collapsed, which were planned according to earthquake rules, while they were still under construction."

A number of seismologists in Turkey recently predicted a devastating earthquake in Istanbul, where scientists report that the city is located at the intersection of Anatolian and Eurasian tectonic plates, 15-20 kilometers south of that part of the northern Anatolian fissure that passes under the Sea of Marmara. This is what predetermines the seismic threat.

A devastating earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck southern Turkey and northern Syria at dawn on Monday, February 6, while the aftershocks of the earthquake reached other countries in the region, and were felt by residents in Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt.