Hatay, Turkey

I haven’t been covering the aftermath of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as it’s receiving broad coverage elsewhere, but this footage is truly staggering.

More drone footage of the city of Hatay.

Related: Some of Turkey’s ancient historical sites have been damaged, but Göbekli Tepe seems intact.

46 Replies to “Hatay, Turkey”

    1. Looks like some fruit/fig tree orchard.
      Going to be hard connecting up with the other side.

  1. Imagine waking up in the dark walking out to your vehicle still a little groggy to go fishing and your driveway is a 100 feet deep and 650 feet wide canyon?
    Double teapot pose for quite a little bit.

    1. Kate – Because Climate change? It didn’t take long for a UN Eruo-scientist to make that connection. Link below.

    1. continental rift system – the pulling apart of continents – creates cracks. Drift creates mountains.

      1. This was a strike-slip fault, 2 plates moving past each other. They estimate the energy was building up for a few centuries and that 300 years worth of energy was released when the plates finally moved. My bad on the rift.

  2. That footage is surreal…
    I’m Hearing ~25,000+ Fatalities and counting…OMG.!
    First I heard of this…today.

      1. Paul

        Climate Change eh..?

        Of course some supposed Scientific moron will put that out there and the MSM will echo that ad Nausea…for days n weeks to come. Yea…Volcanoes are also Climate Change…LMAO..!! and to add a cherry on top of that statement, its all big oils fault. via Fracking of course, right.??…Ok then.

        They truly believe we are that Stoopid.
        Beyond Pathetic…

  3. There are some other less dramatic cracks that run into the horizon. Need to get better at forecasting these.

    1. If you live in a seismic area like Turkey, Greece California, Japan, Alaska Mexico you should expect earthquakes. No prediction is better than that. If you don’t like that possibility move from the area. Much like living on a flood plain or in tornado alley.

      1. I’m wondering when the next earthquake will hit Ottawa. It is also in an earthquake zone.

        And Vancouver would be really screwed. It is also in an earthquake zone.

        1. Joe…

          Funny you mention that.
          I was in Ottawa in ~ Oct 198/88…in an apartment on the 12th floor. I had some hanging plants that started on their own volition to sway….thought I was actually having an acid flashback..!! Too weird as I did not feel the resonance of the building swaying…sure enough, we were feeling the effects of an earthquake.

          Most folks have no idea that there is what I think is called a “grade 5” fault line running right through from NY up into Canada.
          And I had lived downstream of Saunder Damn in Cornwall at the time as well.

  4. L – I presume this is a “conspiracy” theory, but given the current miasma. Would they do
    such a thing. If they had the power to do so? Morally, her argument is plausible. The last
    3 years of perfidy have had a horrendous toll on the innocent.

    Scientifically, I’m not convinced of her thesis, but will the qualified observers opine?
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    Senator Diana Lovanovici, Romania, directly calling out the use of HAARP to cause the Turkish Earthquakes, as a punishment.
    https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1624370518819307528

    1. No more fantastical than thinking humans can control the climate with their trivial 3.9% CO2 contribution

  5. Had a taxi driver in Indonesia tell me that Katrina was gods punishment on the evil Americans, I mentioned the 2005 Tsunami in Aceh and he pretended he didn’t hear or understand me.

    That said, I wonder if he thinks this is gods punishment for Islamic Turks occupying, murdering, and displacing the indigenous peoples of ancient Anatolia and the Christians that once dominated the entire middle east? The Armenian genocide perhaps?

  6. It is a clear signal from God saying the end is near. Fascinating how things predicted in the Bible over 2,000 years ago are coming true now. Get yourself right with Jesus is the answer. God bless everyone.

    1. A clear signal from God that the end is near?

      Interesting.

      What was God signalling with all the earthquakes over say the past 10,000 years?

      1. I watched a clip the other day of a group of rescuers and some of the survivors doing the ‘God is great’ thing, when a young child was pulled alive from the debris…while all around them are the dead. *Bogglement*

    2. hay ron
      earth no longer exists, some idiot bible thumper told me it would end in 1985, and if not then, then absolutely in 2000. Either I missed it, or it didn’t happen. Now take your religious STUPIDITY and shove it!

  7. This is what the San Andreas fault could look like when their next big one hits. Currently, the S.A. fault looks like a gentle little valley overgrown with typical brush and fauna

    1. Hey; I understand your disgust with the progressive BS out here in BC, but wishing an earthquake of this magnitude on a population of a couple of million is kind of sick.
      I’m not part of the Left, but I was born here and still live here, so thanks for the good wishes.

      1. It’s not if an earthquake will occur in Vancouver, but when.

        And depending on the type of quake the resulting tsunami could do very severe damage.

        Rescue efforts will be problematic given the nature of the road and rail connections to Vancouver.

  8. I posted on CTH that when I was a 9yo tyke in 1964, my father flew to Alaska with the Air Force Reserves to document the Earthquake. He was a Photographer with the Air Force, and brought back some frightening photos of the damage. The pictures that really gave me nightmares were those showing the earth cracking open in deep gashes. It fed all my fears of the earth opening up and swallowing little boys into its geologic bowels.

    These fissures are way worse than those I saw in Alaska. Almost enough to give a 67yo living near the (long overdue) Hayward Fault nightmares all over again.

  9. To the geologists here, what are the chunks of very smooth looking rock in second half of the vid? Lava?

    1. Just big chunks of clay or mudstone I think.

      Old sediment just starting to turn to rock.

      Previous earthquake made a canyon that filled with muddy sediment when it rained.

  10. This was all planned. All these buildings were prepped for demolition. Don’t believe me, look at how many came down vertically to almost lie in their own footprint just like the Twin Towers. Planned demolition without a doubt! /s!

    1. Ant
      Structural design determines how a build collapses to a large extent.
      Building # 7 at WTC would collapse in it’s own foot print no matter what the cuse of the event.

  11. Thinking here that the same thing happened to Göbekli Tepe some 12000 years ago.
    Schultz, the guy that dug the place out thought that it was filled with rubble on purpose. That would be the easiest explanation.

  12. See! SEE!!

    That’s what North American oil production does! It either leaves huge hollows or, the AGW it causes removes all the crust’s moisture…prime conditions for massive cave-ins in poor, innocent countries.

    Right?

  13. To bad we couldn’t store some of that energy from the quake so we could turn it into electricity to run all the cities on earth for a couple of thousand years.

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