Guwahati: A fresh earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred on Saturday in central Turkey, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
According to EMSC, the depth of the most recent earthquake in Turkey was roughly 10 kilometres (6.21 miles).
As of Friday, more than 50,000 people had died in Turkey and Syria as a result of the earthquakes that have rocked both countries since February 6. Turkey reported that more than 44,000 people had died.
According to Trkey’s disaster and emergency management authority (AFAD), as of Friday night, 44,218 people had died as a result of the earthquakes there.
That brought the overall number of fatalities from the sequence of earthquakes to above 50,000, together with the most recent death toll from Syria of 5,914.
The Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come under fire for both its response to the disaster and for years of not enforcing construction quality standards, according to the Turkish people.
According to Erdogan, the Turkish government now intends to erect 70,000 village homes and 200,000 flats at a cost of at least $15 billion. Turkey’s reconstruction of its homes and infrastructure is expected to cost $25 billion, according to US Bank JP Morgan.
The UNDP estimates that 1.5 million people are now homeless as a result of the earthquake’s devastation in Turkey and that around 5,000 new homes are needed. It stated that it had asked for USD 113.5 million of the USD 1 billion in money that the UN had requested last week, cash that would be used to clear the mountains of wreckage left behind by the destruction in Turkey.
116 million to 210 million tonnes of rubble have been produced in Turkey, according to UNDP estimates, compared to 13 million tonnes following the 1999 earthquake in northwest Turkey.
Following the terrible earthquake, Turkey has also released new legislation that allows businesses and nonprofit organisations to construct residences and offices and donate them to the ministry of urbanisation for the benefit of those in need.
Many of the original earthquake survivors have since either fled the southern Turkish region affected by the tremors or have relocated to tent cities, container homes, or other government-sponsored housing.