New satellite tv for pc photographs present rescue operations amid large destruction in Turkey

Pivotal infrastructure, together with historical monuments, lay disintegrated in main Turkish cities as witnessed in not too long ago captured high-resolution satellite tv for pc imagery.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 8, 2023 19:31 IST

Kahramanmaras stadium has been was a reduction middle for serving to Turkey earthquake victims (Credit: Planet Labs PBC/India Today)

By Dipti Yadav, Devvrat Pandey: New high-resolution satellite tv for pc photos of earthquake-hit Turkey present the large scale of devastation in addition to the continued rescue operations presently beneath place. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake, together with the aftershocks, precipitated havoc in Turkey and components of Syria on February 6.

The epicentre of the primary tremor is located at Nurdagi within the Gaziantep province of Turkey. With the collective dying toll crossing 11,000 in each international locations, rescue groups from completely different international locations, together with India, have arrived with medical and different help.

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Satellite photos offered by US-based area agency Planet Labs within the aftermath of February 7 tremors present ravaged infrastructure throughout town of Kahramanmaras.

Satellite photos present destruction attributable to earthquake in Kahramanmaras metropolis (Source: Planet Labs PBC/ India Today)

The earlier than and after photos of the Kahramanmaras stadium unravel its transformation right into a secure haven for the calamity victims by establishing a cluster of reduction camps offering them with obligatory humanitarian assist.

After-effects of earthquake within the metropolis of Kahramanmaras (Source: Planet Labs PBC/ India Today)

India Today additionally analysed satellite tv for pc photos captured by one other area know-how firm Maxar Technologies. Similar destruction may be witnessed within the cities of Islahiya and Nurdagi.

After-effects of the earthquake within the metropolis of Islahiya (Source: Maxar Technologies/ India Today)
After-effects of the earthquake within the metropolis of Nurdagi (Source: Maxar Technologies/India Today)

The state of affairs has turn out to be grimmer for the civil war-affected Syrian state with the dying toll rising above 2,000. The catastrophe has affected each authorities and opposition-controlled areas. It has “compounded misery in a country where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in a conflict that began in 2011 when protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule were met with a deadly crackdown”, information company Reuters reported.

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Amidst the chaos, 20 detainees related to the ISIS have fled the Aswad jail of Raju city as per the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) sources. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, India has despatched over 6 tonnes of emergency reduction help to Syria, which incorporates 3 truck-loads of protecting gear, emergency use medicines, ECG machines and different medical objects.

Keeping in view the upsurge in casualties in Turkey, India has despatched a number of rescue groups with reduction supplies. “Indian National Disaster Response Force teams have now reached Gaziantep and commenced search and rescue operations,” mentioned External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.

Thought-provoking photographs captured by photojournalists on the bottom of harmless civilians, particularly youngsters, have made the world rethink on authorities’s city planning in seismically energetic zones.

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Haphazard development of high-rise buildings on a landmass already located on the juncture of 4 main tectonic plates is being talked about as one of many causes for the uncalled calamity which has turned to rubble the traditionally vital monuments of the area in a wink.

Frank Hoogerbeets, a researcher working at Netherlands-based Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGEOS), had predicted the catastrophe beforehand on February 3 in a tweet suggesting an earthquake of comparable magnitude on this area.

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Feb 8, 2023