As the authors write, “Turprom“, at the resorts Turkey recorded the first major earthquake in 2023. So on the evening of February 28, an earthquake was recorded in the Aegean Sea near Izmir. The depth of the earthquake was 14.5 kilometers.
At the same time, the force of the shocks was 4.1 points. But this was enough for local residents and tourists to start running out into the street in a panic. People were afraid that houses and hotels would start to fall, as happened recently during the devastating earthquake in southeastern Turkey.
More than 42,000 people died then. Several hundred thousand were injured and left homeless. Thousands of houses and other buildings were destroyed or critically damaged and required demolition.
