Talk:1999 İzmit earthquake

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Damage cost
Why is the damage cost listed in pounds sterling? Turkey uses Lira; shouldn't that be the first figure, with pound and dollar equivalents in parenthesis? I'm not going to change it yet, because maybe there's some wikipedia style standard about this that I'm not aware of. Can anyone explain it? Kafziel 18:59, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

About Izmit and Izmir
Izmir and Izmit are two different cities. Izmit is next to Istanbul on Anatolia, and it's where the earthquake happened. Izmir is a shore city on Aegean Sea. It's located in mid-west part of the country and consderibly far from the earthquake to even get a slight nudge. Definitly not related to this topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.214.78.197 (talk) 22:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Casualty count
I recall that there was a substantial controversy around the accuracy of the "official" casualty count of less than 30,000. This is probably worth mentioning in the article, not without a source of course. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.3.166 (talk) 09:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes I definitely think it's worth mentioning, not least because the article currently has about three contradictory sets of casualty figures in different places, none of which are properly referenced (or verifiable in English, at least). The best reference I've found is this one, an analysis of the different estimates. It's a conference paper and therefore presumably not peer-reviewed, but it cites peer-reviewed sources for the various estimates. I've changed the article. If you have better sources, feel free to add them. Eve (talk) 17:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

7.6 7.5
It is 7.6, in the news they said that it was 7.4 for few weeks but after that scientist saied that it was 7.6. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilhanli (talk • contribs) 13:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Interestingly the source which I have found says that it is 7.5 --Ilhanli (talk) 21:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The differences are probably due to the way magnitudes are calculated. Firstly the initial calculations are usually done automatically using a limited dataset, these are usually refined later with a more extensive catalogue of data, which might change the figure a bit. Secondly there are several different ways of calculating magnitude, using slightly different measurements (see Richter magnitude scale and Moment magnitude scale if you're interested). I suggest going with the USGS magnitude, for the sake of standardisation. Eve (talk) 17:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Pakistani contribution to aid effort
Does anyone have any good sources confirming a Pakistani contribution to the aid effort? It has been added to the article a couple of times and I've reverted because it was unsourced and I mistook it for a random IP making a random nationality change, but the IP has now made an effort to add a source. Sadly it's a forum post in Turkish, so probably not reliable and I can't read it, and I've reverted for now. But since the IP has made an effort, it would be good if we could confirm whether there was a Pakistani contribution and help find a source to cite. Any ideas? Eve Hall (talk) 08:49, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Greek contribution
I don't see anymention of greek aid, whose members were first to arrive on epicenter, saving survivors from rummble. Also they provided planes to fight fire on oil refinery in Tupras. can anyone found some reliable sources on this information?

Time ?
Local time and UTC should have the same minute in the article. --87.155.90.188 (talk) 21:48, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

7.8
Colorado(National Earthquake Information Center) said the quake had a magnitude of 7.8 ... http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/17/turkey.quake.04/index.html & Turkey says: 7.4 ... so it was not 7.6 ! More than 60 000 people died. Böri (talk) 11:52, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The CNN article you are referencing is almost 11 years old and was based on preliminary estimates, the USGS (NEIC) now lists the magnitude as 7.6. RapidR (talk) 22:46, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


 * "almost 11 years old" ? This article is about 1999 İzmit earthquake... so at that time Colorado said the quake had a magnitude of 7.8 . Surface wave magnitude: 7.8 & Moment magnitude scale: 7.4 says Turkey... You can see it from the Turkish Wikipedia: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_G%C3%B6lc%C3%BCk_Depremi#B.C3.BCy.C3.BCkl.C3.BC.C4.9F.C3.BC_ve_konumu Böri (talk) 08:59, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

The magnitude of an earthquake is not more accurate if it was said closer to the time, data is collected from seismometers not only near the earthquake but around the world and the organisations that run these may only release the data once a year (or often a lot less frequently) to other organisations so it can take many years to get in a large enough data pool to be able to accurately state an earthquakes size. Basically, 6.8 was stated soon after the earthquake and so they were working with preliminary and incomplete data — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.236.63 (talk) 17:33, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Wrong Latitude?
I believe that the latitude recorded is incorrect. It should be 40 not 41. It is also wrong in one of the references listed. However, other references list it was 40. Latitude 41 is in the Black Sea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.95.8.197 (talk) 02:40, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Search and Rescue contributions in Golcuk
Hello,

I do not know about the policies of Wikipedia or if it is necessary to obtain some sort of official report or quotations about them, but I feel the obligation to give some data I personally have about this article.

I was a native volunteer search and rescue (SAR) member in the 1999 earthquake (worked in Yalova for 1 day and Golcuk for 5 days). I do not now about the details of all search and rescue team contributions in Yalova or Golcuk; but in Golcuk, I can definitely say that there was a Belgian SAR team which we worked cooperatively together for a time in Golcuk (it was consisted of two trained dogs and 4 SAR operators to say at least).

There also was a inflattable tent-hospital installed and run by a Russian medic team in Golcuk for all that period I've been there. The Russians also had 5 to 10 SAR members and at least 4 trained dogs working at the Golcuk area.

Eventhough I do not even remember their names or the organizations they belong to (the situation was so severe and the area was incredibly chaotic in all means), I feel the need to give these people credit for the help they have done.

Thank you,

Anil Helvacı from Istanbul — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.190.156.31 (talk) 22:44, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

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Earthquake tax
The article 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake says this earthquake prompted the government to levy an "earthquake tax" to mitigate future risk, and that there are allegations of mismanagement of these funds. It would be interesting to hear about that in detail in this article, or a subarticle. -- Beland (talk) 20:20, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Contributions of Canada and Japan
I see no mention of Canada which sent members of DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team),engineers and hydrocarbon specialists to help put out fires at oil refineries. No mention of Japan, which has experience with earthquakes and sent its specialists. 2001:1970:5AE7:B200:0:0:0:8695 (talk) 21:48, 17 February 2023 (UTC)