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The authorities have put an end to the search for survivors in the province of hataithe most affected by the earthquakes on February 6 and suffered two new tremors on Monday night.
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Last night’s 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude earthquakes caused the collapse of numerous buildings that had already been badly damaged by the earthquakes two weeks ago.
As a result of these landslides, six people died, a figure that the authorities now consider definitive, according to the official Turkish news agency Anadolu, while 294 people, 18 of them seriously injured, received medical attention.
The death toll was not higher because since the first tremor, which left at least 42,310 dead throughout Turkey, no building in Antioquia and its surroundings has been inhabited and the population spends the night outdoors, in tents or in prefabricated houses that are they are installing
At least three of the six victims were people who had entered empty buildings still standing to retrieve their belongings, a common practice these days, but very risky as last night’s tremor has shown.
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The new earthquake and its aftershock, with an epicenter just a dozen kilometers south of Antioch, have also tilted buildings that until now seemed intact, so that no house can be considered safe at the moment, reports the Turkish station NTV.
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recalled on Tuesday, the earthquakes have demolished or seriously damaged 139,000 buildings, with almost half a million homes or offices in the 11 affected provinces.
Altogether, after investigating more than a million buildings in the area, one in ten is either demolished or must be demolished urgently, the Minister of Urbanism, Murat Kurum, has concluded.
The ratio is double in the two most affected provinces, Kahramanmaras and Hatay, where one in five verified buildings is destroyed.
Hatay, a province of 1.6 million people with flourishing agriculture, industry, handicrafts and local tourism, is by far the hardest hit, with 37,000 ruined buildings.
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Especially the provincial capital, Antioquia, with almost 400,000 inhabitants, is so destroyed that the economy will not be able to recover in the short term, explained the president of the local chamber of commerce, Hikmet Çinçin, to NTV.
Of 2,000 registered small businesses, 1,700 have been left in ruins by the earthquakes, explained the businessman, which causes an exodus of the survivors, since they do not have the necessary services for their daily lives.
Two industrial sites located in the hills on the outskirts of Antioquia have withstood the quake with virtually no damage, but they will not be able to continue operating as both workers and more highly-trained employees leave the area, Çinçin said.
The local industry is now desperately looking for workers but will have to close if no one stays to live in a city where there is no electricity for now, he concluded.
Source: Elcomercio
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