Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review - Dogan Media Group

The sea level in the Black Sea has risen by around 10 to 12 centimeters over the past three decades, exposing coastal regions and approximately 160 million people living along the basin to growing risks linked to climate change.

Four hospitals, where seismic isolation devices were used during the construction, were not damaged at all during the devastating earthquakes in southern Türkiye.

No buildings were destroyed in Hatay’s Erzin district during the devastating earthquakes that jolted the southern provinces, with the mayor announcing that there are no casualties in the district as he has not allowed illegal construction.

Türkiye has implemented the “catastrophe early warning system” for the first time amid the fight against the floods that devastated the northern provinces recently, the country’s environment, urbanization and climate change minister has said.

Reports concerning two buildings that collapsed after the earthquake in İzmir, Turkey in October 2020 reveal that they were not earthquake resistant.

Turkey has worked a lot on earthquake management, but the focus must be preparedness, according to a prominent geologist.

Climate change is a reality, with extreme weather events striking more intensely, reports Hurriyet Daily, as in the case in the oil rig explosion on Dec. 4. 2 reasons given for the disaster: the lack of disaster preparedness by the State Oil Company (SOCAR) for extreme weather events and, structurally - both the infrastructure and safety procedures of SOCAR will need to adapt with the changing climate...

'The catastrophe was triggered by riverbeds whose directions were changed in order to construct hydroelectric power plants and regulators placed to transfer more water to the plants. The Black Sea region has already been dangerous in regard to landslides. Necessary measures have not been taken. This disaster is manmade,' Mert Güvenç, the head of the Chamber of Environmental Engineers, told Daily Hürriyet....