Massive 7.8M Earthquake In Southern Turkey

[Metrist]

Industrial cause of earthquakes - mining and drilling

I searched mining and drilling in Turkey, and a lot of results came up, so I'm thinking there could be a industrial cause, because drilling is known to cause earthquakes.

Here's a news article about drilling in the area of the Turkey earthquakes.

Vital! Apocalyptic EARTHQUAKE amid Turkey’s OIL WELLS. Highly Seismic Zone Drilled for Decades to Search Dadas Shale | VT | Alternative Foreign Policy Media

www.veteranstoday.com

 

[sid]

Regarding animals acting up just before a major event, therefore being able to give an early warning, us humans would have had such abilities before our DNA was interfered with and abilities removed; something we are trying to re-develop now. On that thought, I wonder if such abilities, when developed, can be used to listen to the Earth and help dissipate the built-up negative energy, therefore ameliorating or negating the severe impact from an earthquake event. Presumably, this was one of the lost arts which was misunderstood by the "survivors" and then re-created with errors and/or co-opted by the power-hungry to include animal/human sacrifices to appease the gods (based on natural forces), therefore creating the opposite effect i.e., aiding in the built-up of the negative energies. The destruction of Rome certainly comes to mind, when thinking about this and the causal relationship between human mind and the cosmos. We are now witnessing a repeat of the same.

 

[forest_light]

There is another human cause of earthquakes indicated by the C's along the lines of the human-cosmic connection:


The borderland of Northern Syria and Southern Turkiye has been a tense battleground for a good long while now. I don't think we can rule out human mass consciousness as a causal factor.

In reference to your post iamthatis, and as an extension of it, I had just been reading this:

Session: Feb 22, 1997
A: Climate is being influenced by three factors, and soon a fourth.

Q: (L) All right, I’ll take the bait; give me the three factors, and also the fourth!.

A: 1) Wave approach. 2) Chlorofluorocarbon increase in atmosphere, thus affecting ozone layer. 3) Change in the planet’s axis rotation orientation. 4) Artificial tampering by 3rd and 4th density STS forces in a number of different ways. Be vigilant. Be observant. Be cautious in your planning and be aware. Do not let emotional anomalies cloud your knowledge base. This is not a “time” to let one’s guard down. Be especially careful of travel to unfamiliar locators, as well as sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings!!! You are being watched. Or, at least, it is best to assume you are, and act, think, and prepare accordingly. Remember what you have been warned about concerning attack. As you learn more and know more, you become more interesting… and, when your ranks swell, you are more vulnerable unless you are more aware!!

Q: (L) All right, were those given in the order in which they are occurring? The fourth being the one that’s coming later?

A: Maybe, but remember this: a change in the speed of the rotation may not be reported while it is imperceptible except by instrumentation. Equator is slightly “wider” than the polar zones. But, this discrepancy is decreasing slowly currently. One change to occur in 21st Century is sudden glacial rebound, over Eurasia first, then North America. Ice ages develop much, much, much faster than thought. [Discussion of new scientific theory recently presented that the earth is expanding.]

Q: (T) Is the Earth expanding? That’s just putting it bluntly, but, is the Earth expanding, how did you put that? (A) Yes, that’s the theory: the idea is that the continents move away because the Earth is expanding, and this is much faster than you know, than geologists were thinking.

A: Continental “drift” is caused by the continual though variable, propelling of gases from the interior to the surface, mainly at points of magnetic significance.

Q: (J) What causes the change in the axis?

A: By slow down of rotation. Earth alternately heats up and cools down in interior.

Q: (L) Why does it do that? What’s the cause of this?

A: Part of cycle related to energy exerted upon surface by the frequency resonance vibrational profile of humans and others.


While reading this, I wondered if the magnetic significance comment also had something to do with those whales washing up?

 

[PERLOU]

Silvano Trotta Officiel

1/2 Il se passe des choses étranges aux US. Les “médias “ se focalisent tous sur les UFOs parce qu’il faut détourner l’attention des injections, de la crypto-monnaie qui arrive à vitesse grand V, d’autres documents de l’affaire Epstein qui vont être révélés... Mais aussi d’un gros accident...

t.me

1/2 Strange things are happening in the US. The "media" are all focused on UFOs because they need to divert attention from the injections, the crypto-currency that is coming out fast, the other Epstein case documents that are going to be revealed... But also a big chemical accident in Ohio. It is however terrible and surely very dangerous in the short, medium and long term, as was Chernobyl. In the United States, a train with a chemical product derails and catches fire

Train with chemicals derails and catches fire in the US

The 50-car train derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio



2/2 Local wildlife is dying and children and adults are not well. A journalist asking questions was arrested almost live. What else are they hiding from us?

YouTube (

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US journalist charged while covering a press conference
American journalist Evan Lambert was arrested on Wednesday 8 February in the gymnasium of a primary school in East Palestine, Ohio. The governor of the state, Mike DeWine, was giving a press conference on the train derailment that had occurred a week earlier.

 

[benkostka]

While reading this, I wondered if the magnetic significance comment also had something to do with those whales washing up?

Lots of the autopsies on these whales show massive amounts of plastic in their stomachs. I’d bet that has a lot to do with their deaths. The bags end up obstructing their digestive tracts.

 

[iamthatis]

Lots of the autopsies on these whales show massive amounts of plastic in their stomachs. I’d bet that has a lot to do with their deaths. The bags end up obstructing their digestive tracts.

Maybe in some cases, but in general, I think whale beachings are a case of animal magnetism.

Gray whales strand more often on days with increased levels of atmospheric radio-frequency noise

Evidence from live gray whale strandings suggests that their navigation may be disrupted by increased radio frequency noise generated by solar storms, suggesting the potential for magnetoreception in this species.

www.cell.com

Relatively little is known about the cues whales use while migrating. Visual cues in the ocean are often limited, which may drive oceanic migrators to use other sensory modalities, such as the ubiquitous geomagnetic field [1]. While it is impractical to perform behavioral assays on whales, strandings have been recorded for decades, and may provide insight into whale migration. Many strandings document that the individual was neither ill nor injured and resumed normal activity following rescue [2, 3, 4]. It is therefore possible that a portion of these animals stranded due to navigational errors. Although many factors impact strandings (e.g. naval mid-frequency sonar, disease, etc.) [5], here we focus on whether strandings can be used to study the potential for magnetoreception in migratory whales. Previous studies have used spatial patterns in strandings to suggest the potential for magnetoreception in cetaceans [4,6]. We use 31 years of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) stranding data (n = 186) to build on earlier work that found a positive relationship between strandings and sunspot counts [2, 3]. Sunspots are strongly correlated with solar storms — sudden releases of high-energy particles from the sun that modify the geomagnetic field and thus have the potential to disrupt magnetic orientation behavior [7]. We examined relationships between strandings and two aspects of Earth’s magnetosphere altered by solar storms — radio frequency noise and displacements in the Earth’s magnetic field. Our results suggest that the increase in strandings under high solar activity is best explained by an effect on the sensor, not on the magnetic field itself.

Although this study focuses on birds, it mentions whales as being magneto-navigators as well. Whoever knew that chickens were so in tune with the electric universe?

How birds use Earth's magnetic field to navigate - Australian Geographic

Can birds see the Earth's magnetic field? The latest research on navigation suggests they can and even hints that humans may be able to detect it too.

www.australiangeographic.com.au

Can birds see the Earth’s magnetic field? The latest research on navigation suggests they can and even hints that humans may be able to detect it too.

WHY CHICKENS? That was the question. To biologist Dr Ursula Munro, a fellow scientist’s suggestion they investigate whether chickens could sense the Earth’s magnetic field seemed nonsensical.

“I ridiculed the idea,” says Ursula, an ecologist and expert on animal behaviour at the University of Technology, Sydney. “A built-in magnetic compass makes sense in migratory birds, which must find their way across huge distances. But chickens? They don’t move far; why would they need it?”

Since the 1960s, scientists have confirmed that more than 20 migratory species of bird use the Earth’s magnetic field to help them find their way. In the early 2000s, Ursula herself found that the tiny Tasmanian silvereye navigates magnetically during its annual migrations up the Australian coast.

It seemed that species that took part in long-haul travel were uniquely equipped for this task. Which was why, in 2004, Ursula was dismissive when Dr Raf Freire, then at the University of New England, NSW, suggested testing chickens to see if they too had the knack. Nevertheless, she agreed to collaborate with Raf on a series of experiments using young chickens.

What emerged from that research astonished not only Ursula but also the wider scientific community. “I was gobsmacked,” she says.

Early theory of bird navigation​

One of the first people to suggest that inanimate objects could exert a force on living creatures was Franz Mesmer, an 18th-century Austrian physician, although his theory of ‘animal magnetism’ soon fell out of favour.

Then, in the 1950s, scientists noted that caged European robins, which normally migrate southward in autumn, would assemble at the southern end of their cages in the appropriate season.

In the following decade, Wolfgang Wiltschko, a student at Germany’s J.W. Goethe University, in Frankfurt – and now the world’s leading authority on avian navigation – placed electromagnetic coils around the cages of robins to alter the magnetic field, causing the birds to gather at a different compass point.

This and subsequent investigations by him and his wife, Roswitha, proved beyond doubt that birds can detect magnetic fields and use them to orient themselves.

These days we know that birds are not the only creatures that can do this. Snails, fruit flies, bees, butterflies, salamanders, newts, lobsters, frogs, bats, salmon, trout, whales, sea turtles and the mole rat of East Africa can, too.

While the evidence that these creatures can sense and use the Earth’s magnetic field is pretty conclusive, how exactly they do it and what organs they use to do so are the subjects of fiercely competitive research around the world.

How birds use magnetism to navigate​

Raf, who now lectures in animal behaviour at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, NSW, says this makes it an exciting field to be working in. “A lot of important discoveries are happening very quickly,” he says. “You can feel the race to try and nail down what the mechanisms are.”

Scientists speculate that animals have two distinct magnetic sensing mechanisms in their bodies, each with a different function. In birds, both of these magneto-receptors are believed to be in the head. It’s not known if they work simultaneously, independently or jointly.

However, as the Wiltschkos suggested in a 2005 paper, one of the receptors probably acts as a magnetometer – which measures magnetic intensity – and the other as a compass. In animals, this action could be based on two magnetically sensitive forms of iron oxide – magnetite and maghemite. Particles of these minerals in an animal’s body align themselves with a magnetic field, affecting cells around them and thus firing off signals to the brain.

Many bird species have tiny bundles of these minerals in the upper beak region, and Raf has found that anaesthetising the nerves in this region impairs a bird’s capacity to sense a magnetic field. Different geographic features and zones have differing magnetic intensities.

As a bird flies over them during a migration, its magnetometer may detect these anomalies and enable it to compile a mental map of magnetic signposts for future use.

The second mechanism, the compass, may indicate direction. But unlike a conventional compass, it doesn’t distinguish between north and south; it tells the bird only where a pole is and where the equator is.

As Ursula says: “It doesn’t matter whether a bird is in the Southern or Northern hemisphere, in autumn it knows it needs to go equator-wards.”

How birds us magnetism as a compass​

Here’s how scientists think the avian compass works. The organs for this mechanism are believed to be in the right eye, but perhaps in the left eye also. Research indicates this magneto-receptor may be based on pigment proteins in the retina known as cryptochromes.

The Earth’s magnetic field seems to induce a chemical reaction in these proteins when certain light wavelengths (mostly blue) strike the retina. This results in signals being sent from the eye to the brain via the optic nerve. Some scientists believe this may mean a bird can actually see the magnetic field.

The Earth is one vast magnet, with its magnetic poles situated close to the geographic poles. Magnetic field lines extend away from the Earth at the South Magnetic Pole, travel north and plunge back into the planet at the North Magnetic Pole. So at the poles, the lines appear vertical, at the Equator they appear horizontal, and in-between they align at varying inclinations.

The precise nature of the chemical reaction in cryptochromes is believed to vary according to the angle of the magnetic field lines – their inclination – as they pass through the eye. Inclination, therefore, is a strong pointer to direction. Angled lines may indicate that a bird is close to a pole; horizontal lines may mean the bird is at the Equator.

For the moment, what the magnetic field looks like to a bird is anybody’s guess. “The magnetic compass is a side-function of the eye, and magnetic information is primarily mediated by the visual system,” Roswitha Wiltschko says. “Yet birds must separate the magnetic from the visual information somehow. How birds perceive this information is impossible to tell.”

Illustrators have tried different techniques to depict what they imagine a bird may see. Some have shaded parts of the visual image in grey. Others have varied the colour intensity, with some parts of the image being brighter than others.

Raf, on the other hand, suggests the information might appear on the image as dots or blotches. Overall, the effect might be like the heads-up display projected onto the windscreen of a jet fighter to give the pilot vital information.

There’s a theory that – by swinging its head from side to side and thus changing the angle between the magnetic field lines and its eye – a bird generates a moving visual impression of the magnetic field. Some migratory birds scan the horizon in just this way before setting out on a long journey.

They appear to do it more at dusk, when the dim blue-green of the sky may be of the right wavelength for maximum sensitivity to magnetism. In fact, movement, either from head-scanning or from flight itself, may be important for ‘seeing’ field lines.

If the inclination compass depends on light, logic says it shouldn’t work in the dark. Yet some migratory birds seem to be able to orient themselves while flying at night. Ursula attributes this to the fact there is always some light available. “Yes, it’s light dependent, but birds can navigate at night using it because there’s always light from the Moon and stars. It’s never pitch black.”

Chickens use magnetism too​

Raf is fond of chickens. Much of his work on them has been aimed at improving their welfare. Back in 2004 he was at the University of New England, where he and a team that included the initially sceptical Ursula and the Wiltschkos launched into a series of tests to find out whether the birds were equipped to sense magnetism.

In initial tests, the scientists trained chicks to find a red ping-pong ball hidden behind a small screen.

“We trained them to always search for the ball in a certain direction, say always north, and then we used copper coils to shift the magnetic field by 90° and, hey presto, instead of going north the chickens went east,” Raf says. “This meant they were using the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate by. It was neat and straightforward.”

Subsequent tests proved conclusively that chickens possess not only a magnetic compass, but also an iron-ore-based magneto-receptor in the upper beak area. They were dramatic discoveries.

Although magnetic sensing was known in more recently evolved branches of the bird family, this was the first time it had been seen in an archaic lineage, such as the chicken’s. What’s more, it had survived thousands of years of domestication.

“Our thinking is that it originated in an avian ancestor, before the chicken line broke off, so it’s quite an ancient skill,” Raf says.

An implication of this is that all birds, and perhaps most animals, may sense magnetic fields. Raf has no doubt about this. Unlike vision, which requires huge amounts of neural computing power, magnetic sensing is simple and economical. The Earth’s magnetic field is omnipresent and receptors can monitor it all the time, providing constant background information.

“Jungle-dwelling chicken ancestors would have used it on their home range – about a kilometre square,” Raf says. “It would be hard for them to distinguish trees in the jungle visually, so they would just use something as simple as the magnetic compass to navigate.”

Ursula agrees. “Magnetic sensing might simply be one component among the large number of cues available to aid navigation… I believe now that it is everywhere. It makes sense.”

If it’s common in nature, do humans have it? Some scientists believe so, though they stress it’s only a guess. In the 1970s zoologist Dr Robin Baker of the University of Manchester, UK, claimed to have shown that humans could orient themselves magnetically.

However, no other scientist has been able to reproduce his results. In 1992, US scientists published a paper confirming that humans have small amounts of naturally occurring magnetite in their bodies. As for cryptochrome, scientists have known since the 1990s that humans have this pigment protein in the retina. Until recently, though, it seemed only to play a role in setting the biological clock.

Then, in 2011, Professor Steve Reppert, a neuroscientist at the University of Massachusetts, USA, experimented with fruit flies that had been genetically engineered to be cryptochrome-deficient and were poor magnetic navigators.

By splicing the human cryptochrome gene into the flies, he restored their navigational capacity. He’d made a link between human cryptochrome and magnetic sensing.

“Based on our studies, I believe humans have magnetosensing abilities,” Steven says. As for how we might perceive and use the Earth’s magnetic field, he adds: “We believe that human magnetosensing may aid visual spatial perception rather than acting as a compass for directional information.”

So maybe you can’t tell north from south on a cloudy day. But if you’re blessed with a good sense of direction, perhaps it’s all down to your cryptochromes.

 

[benkostka]

Maybe in some cases, but in general, I think whale beachings are a case of animal magnetism.

Gray whales strand more often on days with increased levels of atmospheric radio-frequency noise

Evidence from live gray whale strandings suggests that their navigation may be disrupted by increased radio frequency noise generated by solar storms, suggesting the potential for magnetoreception in this species.

www.cell.com

Although this study focuses on birds, it mentions whales as being magneto-navigators as well. Whoever knew that chickens were so in tune with the electric universe?

How birds use Earth's magnetic field to navigate - Australian Geographic

Can birds see the Earth's magnetic field? The latest research on navigation suggests they can and even hints that humans may be able to detect it too.

www.australiangeographic.com.au

Yea, Robert Becker’s book, the Body Electric goes into how we’ve completely ruined the ability of homing pigeons to return home. They used to find their way home easily until we started sending all types of EMF into the atmosphere. I think the same was covered in The Invisible Rainbow.

He also went into how most animals have multiple GPS type systems in their body and if the primary one doesn’t work they’ll essentially go to a backup. Lots of life can create magnetite crystals in their bodies, including humans. They didn’t have the technology to find them until squids were invented, but now we can learn lots more. Unfortunately for us, all that testing equipment is held behind the wall of national security.

You could also factor in the whale strandings from sonars and other Navy equipment that most likely fries their equipment…. It’s certainly a mess and we aren’t helping our 2D friends. I guess in the end it’s like anything else, you’d really need to take a look at the specific circumstances for each incident.

 

[iamthatis]

Brings to mind Gurdjieff's teaching on Reciprocal Maintenance. A teaching he said was long forgotten from the time of Zoroaster.

One of the main problems of humanity is that we don’t know our place in the world.

We don’t know why we exist. We don’t understand our role. We don’t have a clue about our place in the reciprocal maintenance of all and everything.

With regards to this, there is actually a ton of evidence now to back up Gurdjieff's claims - but only by half. The focus is to describe the effects of space weather on human health (in a purely top-down approach). Beyond this forum, I haven't seen much at all on how human health effects space weather, except for buried in mythology or explicitly stated by guys like Gurdjieff.

While Ben Davidson may be off the mark in numerous ways with his Suspicious Observers stuff, but he provides a good literature review that covers the top-down approach to this topic. Below is an excerpt from his book The Weatherman's Guide to the Sun.

When reading through, I don't know if it is correct to say that the symptoms listed (from myocarditis to MS to anxiety) are caused by space weather and our geomagnetic environment... I think cause and symptom are linked together here in a simultaneous feedback loop that is quite complex.

Davidson is talking about space weather specifically, so this is kinda adjacent to the topic of this particular quake, but since space weather, earth weather, and earthquakes are so clearly linked, it provides good food for thought. Especially if we consider that the 'symptoms' below could in fact be understood to be 'causes'.

It's also quite interesting to note that much of the original literature was apparently developed by those evil Russians!

The atmosphere is not the only element of our world affected by space weather. This chapter details the known effects of electromagnetic energy on our health and technology. Starting with ourselves: Our bodies are full of that same conductive water as the atmosphere, our blood is full of conductive iron, our nervous system is a body-wide electric circuit, and the heart produces even more electric power than the brain- we are perfect candidates for electromagnetic effects from space weather.

[...]

Key Points:

1) Dozens of correlations between space weather and human health have been published, covering numerous conditions and bodily systems.

2) Both extremely high and low geomagnetic activity appear relevant for health effects, with the low end being dominated by higher GCR (galactic cosmic ray) levels.

3) Heart attack, stroke, arrhythmia, blood pressure, heart-rate, blood-troponin levels, and more cardiac events/parameters are strongly linked with space weather extremes.

4) Cognitive, emotional and mental effects from space weather are correlated just as strongly as the biophysical effects.

5) Good candidates for pathways of psychological influence are through the locus coeruleus (geomagnetic frequencies) and hippocampus (cosmic rays).

[...]

1) We Start with the Heart

1. In a healthy person, heart rate and beat-interval fluctuations are correlated with space weather, with increases in both metrics during the most severe geomagnetic storms, and with high solar radio flux, high galactic cosmic rays (GCR), and variations of Schumann signals (Pishchalnikov et al. 2019; Singh et al. 2019; Stoupel 2019; Timofejeva et al. 2019; Alabdulgader et al. 2018; Galata et al. 2017; Mavromichalaki et al. 2012).
   
2. Healthy people also show significant, but often varying, responses to space weather variability in capillary blood velocity and arterial pressure (Nasutaviciene et al. 2019; Pishchalnikov et al. 2019; Gurfinkel et al. 2018; Ozheredov et al. 2017).
   
   Note that both the highest solar activity and high GCR (lowest solar activity) have effects - these are the space weather extreme ends of the scale.

3. When there is very low geomagnetic activity and a higher flux of cosmic rays, there is a higher incidence of acute myocardial infarctions, cerebral stroke (Stoupel et al. 2013), and deadly arrhythmia (Kiznys and Vencloviene 2018; Ebrill et al. 2016), especially in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and ischemic cardiomyopathy (Stoupel et al. 2008). Geomagnetic fluctuations from high solar activity have also been shown to influence acute myocardial infarction rates on weekly timescales (Jarusevicius et al. 2018).

1. There is evidence for a correlation between arrhythmias and polarity reversals in the solar polar fields (Mavromichalaki et al. 2016) and during sharp Phi angle changes (Kiznys and Vencloviene 2018).
   
2. With the highest geomagnetic activity, there is a rise in the overall number of heart attacks, strokes, and sudden cardiac deaths of all kinds (Stoupel 2019; Zilli Vieira et al. 2019; Dimitrova et al. 2017; Vencloviene et al. 2016 [1]; Feigin et al. 2014; Stoupel et al. 2006).
   
3. During the days of lowest geomagnetic activity there is also a spike in total sudden cardiac deaths (Stoupel 2019; Dimitrova et al. 2017; Stoupel et al. 2016, Stoupel et al. 2013).
   
   
4. For patients with diabetes, or other metabolic disorders, high geomagnetic activity, especially from high-speed coronal holes, creates an increased risk of acute coronary syndrome (Kiznys et al. 2020; Kiznys and Vencloviene 2018; Vencloviene et al. 2016 [2]).
5. Geomagnetic storms have been shown to significantly increase arterial pressure, leading to adverse cardiac events; even small changes in local magnetic fields can induce anxiety and restlessness that can affect arterial pressure (Nasutaviciene et al. 2019; Pishchalnikov et al. 2019; Vencloviene et al. 2018; Azcarate et al. 2016; Martinez-Breton and Mendoza, 2015; Babayev et al. 2012).
   

1. Apollo astronauts show increased occurrences of cardiovascular disease-related mortality, likely due to their increased exposure to GCR over long periods (Delp et al. 2016).
   
2. Vascular diseases have been tied to low dose radiation in laboratory settings designed to mimic GCR exposure (Tang and Loganovsky 2018).
   
3. At a chemical level, blood-troponin levels in those with acute cardiac events showed significant modulation by solar and GCR activity (Stoupel et al. 2018; Stoupel 2017).

2) The Modern Evolution of the Field

Much of what western science knows about space weather and human health is built on a fantastic literature-review now nearly 20 years old. Cherry (2002) reviewed much of the published papers available at that time, much of which was only available in Russian, and found many of the repeating patterns and correlations that have been reported and confirmed since then. His findings included:

1. Over longer timescales, variations in sunspot number correlate positively with suicide rates (with highest sunspot numbers), and negatively with pregnancy-induced hypertension.
   
2. Correlations with heart attacks and strokes can be seen over annual/decadal scales in addition to daily timeframes.
   
3. Geomagnetic storms positively correlate with convulsive seizures, loss of attention and memory, and with aviation incidents.
   
4. Ultra low geomagnetic activity (highest cosmic ray flux) seems to induce vivid dreaming, increased crime rates, more suicide events, work injuries, sports injuries, traffic accidents, and psychiatric admissions.
   
5. Both sunspot number and geomagnetic storms are positively correlated with mortality in general, and a drop in birth rate. The birth rate issue was recently revived from the cosmic ray side when it was shown that even low-dose ionizing radiation may induce congenital abnormalities (Tang and Loganovsky 2018).
   
   There are many other significant but varying risks for the conditions of both low (KP0) and high (KP5+) geomagnetic activity, and many confirmations of the claims in Cherry (2002):
   
   1. The susceptibility of biological life to geomagnetic disturbances appears to increase with fatigue as well as with known factors such as previous risk, lifestyle choice, and geomagnetic latitude (Nasutaviciene et al. 2019).
      
   2. Medical emergencies of all kinds increase on days with zero geomagnetic activity (Stoupel 2019; Stoupel et al. 2013).
      
   3. Autonomic nervous system rhythms have been shown to sync-up with geomagnetic activity (McCraty et al. 2017).
      
   4. Solar-induced disruptions of normal daily geomagnetic variations can affect circadian rhythm (Krylov et al. 2019).
      
   5. For multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, hospital admission rates increase dramatically in the weeks to months following the strongest geomagnetic storms, with a peak lagging seven to eight months behind the storms themselves (Papathanasopoulis et al. 2016). This long-term response has been confirmed (Sajedi and Abdollahi 2017). Onset of MS, even at the earliest stages of life, has been correlated with geomagnetic activity at Kp7+ (Samoylova et al. 2017).
      
   6. Both high and low Kp extremes have been correlated with migraines, digestive issues, cognitive diminution, vision impairment, decreased melatonin levels, slower reaction times, mood fluctuations, effects on the waking and dreaming states of consciousness, and changes in EEG/ECG activity. (Sasonko et al. 2019; Parihar et al. 2018; Rozhkov et al. 2018; Shepherd et al. 2018; Parihar et al. 2016; Gok et al. 2014; Shuvy et al. 2014; Persinger 2011; Zenchenko 2011; Soroka 2008; Babayev and Allahverdiyeva 2007; Cherry 2002).
      
   7. Suicide rate correlation with GCR activity has been confirmed (Gour and Soni 2016).
      
   8. Many of the cognitive/psychological effects, including significant medical outcomes like suicide, make more sense given recent findings of increased anxiety induced by space weather (Perez et al. 2020; Kiffer et al. 2018).
      
   9. Astronauts, pilots, and even the unlucky airline passenger on a bad space weather day could receive biologically relevant, or even cancer-causing doses of solar/cosmic radiation (Cucinotta et al. 2020; Tenishev et al. 2018; Phillips 2013).
   10. Charged particle bombardment has been correlated with decreased or eliminated ability to recover from brain injuries and impairments to the hippocampus that may have otherwise been overcome (Cacao and Cucinotta 2016). This has been shown for neutral (neutron) radiation as well (Acharya et al. 2019).
       
   11. Space weather extremes (high and low) appear to be well-correlated with worse-than-usual influenza pandemics (Qu 2016; Hayes 2010; Moan et al. 2009; Yeung 2006).
       
       
   12. Gut microbiota have shown response to cosmic ray exposure (Raber et al. 2019).
       
       
   13. Human happiness indices have been statistically correlated with a lack of solar activity (anticorrelated with sunspot number) (Kristoufek 2018).
       
       
   14. It is worth noting that the Schumann effects from lightning and other space weather- induced frequencies can be positive or negative in terms of the mental, emotional, and physical effects, etc., and are largely dependent on the specific frequencies to which the resonance peaks shift during the event (Persinger 2011).
       
   15. Extremely low frequency (ELF) exposure, like those from magnetosphere reverberation during geomagnetic storms, has been shown to cause DNA damage, cause inflammation, disrupt cellular reproductive processes, reduce immune function, slow wound healing, and influence behavioral and psychological activity (Lai 2019). Similar correlations have been suggested for ultra-low frequencies (ULF) (de Assis et al. 2019).
       
       

Effects on the Brain

Many of the cognitive dysfunctions associated with GCR exposure have been subsequently confirmed in forward-looking studies for Mars astronauts (Cucinotta et al. 2020; Hu et al. 2020; Kiffer et al. 2018; Parihar et al. 2018; Tang and Loganovsky 2018; Parihar et al. 2016).

There are significant biological reactions to both cosmic ray surges and intense solar storms; the least risky periods appear to be when the Kp index is between 2 and 4, representing an equilibrium, modest amount of geomagnetic activity, whereas the low and high end of the scale are considered ‘extremes’. The “Kp = 2-4 safe-zone” applies to most space weather-health connections.

How does it work? In the same way that the sun and GCR have different mechanisms for affecting the weather, they have different ways of affecting our bodies.

Biological creatures are subject to the induced currents of geomagnetic storms and the reverberation frequencies of the global field at ground level. At the other extreme, GCR strikes will directly ionize whatever they hit.

1. One study detected a significant 12-hr lag in human psychological effect from geomagnetic variation (Joffe-Luiniene et al. 2019), possibly induced by a +2x reduction in theta (4 to 7.9 Hz) brain wave activity (Novik et al. 2019).
   
2. Geomagnetic induction of anxiety, restlessness, and abnormal behavior was shown in laboratory animals to overpower sedative drugs (Fournier 2019). These effects, including
   
3. Increased excitability, have been tied to solar flares (irradiance) and geomagnetic (induction) activity (Mukhin et al. 2018).

1. Increased propensity for aggression and high-risk behavior trends have been noted with the application of low magnetic field frequencies like those associated with geomagnetic storms (Shepherd et al. 2019).
   
2. From a cognitive standpoint, a foundational study demonstrated that the same extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves produced during severe geomagnetic storms can also disrupt the locus coeruleus, the part of the brain that directly modulates our ability to deal with stress and panic (Rostami et al. 2016). This can have direct effects on cognitive function and behavior. Correlations with ELF/ULF continued to confirm this pathway of modulation (de Assis et al. 2019; Lai 2019).
   
3. Meanwhile from a GCR standpoint, the most abundant particle bombardment (1H) was shown to induce anxiety-like behaviors; postmortem analyses revealed stark hippocampal changes (Kiffer et al. 2018).
   
   i. This analysis held true for iron nuclei GCR as well, which come from supernova (Cacao and Cucinotta 2019; Dutta et al. 2018; Raber et al. 2016).
   
   ii. Similar cognitive deficits were seen with exposure to Helium nuclei (Raber et al. 2018).
   
   iii.Studies indicate that part of the neuronal damage may occur from increased oxidation processes triggered by protons, oxygen nuclei, carbon nuclei, silicon nuclei and iron nuclei (Cacao and Cucinotta 2019; Liu et al. 2019; Raber et al. 2019; Belov et al. 2016) and from decreased hippocampal cell division (Acharya et al. 2019; Sweet et al. 2014).
   
   iv. Recent analyses also linked various cognitive defects to neuroinflammation and changes in gene/protein expression induced by cosmic rays, as well as neuronal function vulnerability (Cucinotta and Cacao 2019; Ueno et al. 2019; Parihar et al. 2018).

Space weather, (and by extension, our planetary weather and Earth changes) are all are linked with human health. The C's have said that weather and Earth changes are manifestations of battles in 4D. Given that humans are sort of like the organic interface between the earth and the cosmos, as G said, it makes sense that these battles in 4D show up in our hearts and minds as well.

 

[Zzartemis]

Thank you for the book excerpt @iamthatis; I am aware of Ben and his remarks on health correlations, but I don't have his book...Davison is from a town down the road a piece from me, he started out in finance.

Beyond this forum, I haven't seen much at all on how human health effects space weather, except for buried in mythology or explicitly stated by guys like Gurdjieff

Actually in the 1990s I was posting info on the space weather affecting health and behavior. This was available in discussions among internet groups when websites linked to each other in a circular chain called a web ring. And yes, we did refer to a lot of Russian studies.

so this is kinda adjacent to the topic of this particular quake, but since space weather, earth weather, and earthquakes are so clearly linked, it provides good food for thought. Especially if we consider that the 'symptoms' below could in fact be understood to be 'causes'.

I also would refer to a web group whose memembers were pretty darn accurate at predicting EQs and where thru symptoms of discomfort and/or pain, parts of the body were tagged to earth locations.

I will go back after certain days of discomfort and/or cognitive scrambling and check space weather...and I see many confirmations.

 

[XPan]

8 meter

Here is an article from German Vulkane.net who wrote about the two fractures in Turkey Earthquake. The aspect of that the shorter fault moved a whole 8 meter, was new to me.

Edit: Oh the article also mentions that people who were responsible in the cheating of the poor building constructions, were taken at the airport, as they tried to leave the country.

Erdbeben Türkei: Zwei lange Risse entdeckt - Vulkane Net Newsblog

Die Erdbeben in der Türkei verursachten zwei Risse in der Erdkruste, die mehrere Hundert Kilometer lang sind.

www.vulkane.net

Earthquake Turkey: Two long cracks discovered
13 February 2023 • by Marc Szeglat



Recovery operations are in full swing in the Turkish earthquake zone, but meanwhile hopes of finding survivors under the rubble are fading. More than 35,000 people have now been found dead. Experts believe that the number of victims could double. Some even fear a tripling of the numbers. More than 80,000 people have been injured. Hundreds of thousands have been made homeless. At times there are riots because the supply situation is not good for everyone. The military has to protect relief workers from attacks. There are reports of looting. In the meantime, numerous people have been arrested who are blamed for the disaster: They are blamed for botched construction, because of which so many high-rise buildings collapsed like houses of cards. Some people were arrested at airports as they tried to leave the country.

Earthquake causes long cracks in the earth's crust

Not only the rescue workers are busy, but also geoscientists who are documenting the geological consequences of the earthquakes. Researchers from the UK's Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET) discovered two long cracks in the Earth's surface on Sentinel satellite photos. The longer one is 300 km long and was formed during the first earthquake Mw 7.8. It runs in a northeast-southwest direction and thus follows parallel to the strike direction of the southern branch of the East Anatolian Fault. Its trace is lost on the Mediterranean coast. The second fracture is a good 125 km long and opened up as a result of the second strong earthquake Mw 7.5. This fracture runs along the northern arm of the East Anatolian Fault.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624099723878731776

According to Professor Tim Wrigh, head of COMET, such fractures often form during strong earthquakes, but these two are among the longest ever observed. This is testament to the enormous energy of the quakes. The cracks not only run through localities, but even directly through buildings. The horizontal displacement of the longer crack is up to 5 metres. The displacement at the shorter crack is even greater, amounting to almost 8 metres.

NASA scientist Eric Fielding compares the earthquake to the one that destroyed San Francisco in 1906.

END OF ARTICLE

 

[Puma]

In Mexico we had a similar experience, the rampant corruption of the government of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982-1988) allowed construction companies to bypass all construction regulations and use very low quality materials both to lower costs and to steal the budget in complicity with the construction companies.



With the M8.1 earthquake on September 19, 1985 all the corruption was discovered. The government issued new regulations and I don't remember any prosecution of those responsible, both from the government and private companies, it took another earthquake and other building collapses on September 19, 2017 to realize that little had changed. Once again, construction companies skipped regulations in complicity with public officials.

Corruption kills more than an earthquake-producing machine

Turkey's lax policing of building codes known before quake

Turkey has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes while allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, experts say.

The lax enforcement, which experts in geology and engineering have long warned about, is gaining renewed scrutiny in the aftermath of this week's devastating earthquakes, which flattened thousands of buildings and killed more than 23,000 people across Turkey and Syria.

“This is a disaster caused by shoddy construction, not by an earthquake,” said David Alexander, a professor of emergency planning at University College London.

It is common knowledge that many buildings in the areas pummeled by this week’s two massive earthquakes were built with inferior materials and methods, and often did not comply with government standards, said Eyup Muhcu, president of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey.

He said that includes many old buildings, but also apartments erected in recent years — nearly two decades after the country brought its building codes up to modern standards. “The building stock in the area was weak and not sturdy, despite the reality of earthquakes,” Muhcu said.

The problem was largely ignored, experts said, because addressing it would be expensive, unpopular and restrain a key engine of the country's economic growth.

Shortly before Turkey's last presidential and parliamentary election in 2018, the government unveiled a sweeping program to grant amnesty to companies and individuals responsible for certain violations of the country's building codes. By paying a fine, violators could avoid having to bring their buildings up to code. Such amnesties have been used by previous governments ahead of elections as well.

Turkey's lax policing of building codes known before quake

Turkey has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes while allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, experts say

abcnews.go.com

The Turkish Chamber of Engineers Building was not damaged.

 

[Puma]

HOPE

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

Richard Evans

Never give up hope. Storms make people stronger and they never last forever.

Roy T. Bennett

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624491928464007176

SMILE

A smile means a lot. It enriches the one who receives it; without impoverishing the one who offers it. It lasts a second but its memory, sometimes, is never erased.

Anonymous

If ever you don't get the smile you expect, be generous and give your own, because no one needs a smile more than he who does not know how to smile at others.

Dalai Lama

Find a place inside where there is joy, and joy will burn away the pain

Joseph Campbell

This little angel spent 128 hours buried under the rubble, was rescued alive, checked in the hospital, fed and bathed... Now with a smile of joy, he brings a message of faith and hope, in the midst of so much pain.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1625316195837571072

 

[Aeneas]

An article from yesterday, which highlights the problems Erdogan is facing as voices are raised about the earthquake response. Elections are scheduled for May 14th.

Amid Turkiye's rubble lies Erdogan's political fate

The full impact of the recent earthquake that hit both Turkiye and Syria has yet to be fully assessed, but the Turkish Republic has already sustained significant damage that could have long-lasting political effects.

thecradle.co

Amid Turkiye’s rubble lies Erdogan’s political fate
The full impact of the recent earthquake that hit both Turkiye and Syria has yet to be fully assessed, but the Turkish Republic has already sustained significant damage that could have long-lasting political effects.
By

Ceyda Karan
February 13 2023

Photo credit: The Cradle


“We are being tested day and night by the absence of something that tries to make us believe in its power, might and greatness. (No, it’s not God).”
These words expressed by Dr. Fatih Yaşli, an academic from Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, describes the feeling of many Turks who were shocked by the devastating earthquake which ripped through the country’s southern regions and neighboring Syria on 6 February, 2023.
The two earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 which hit the Pazarcik and Elbistan districts of Kahramanmaras not only destroyed entire neighborhoods, but, within 24 hours, also ravaged Turkish perceptions of the so-called “omnipotent state” created by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The state’s failure
People were left wondering “Where is help, where is the state?” as they waited desperately under the rubble, while the nation’s infrastructure – once the pride of the Erdogan administration – lay in ruins. The lack of proper relief campaigns and inaccessible cities due to adverse weather conditions added to the suffering of the affected population.
The Gaziantep-Adana highway was in ruins. The newly opened bridge in Malatya collapsed, and the airport, whose terminal roof was damaged, was closed to civilian flights. Hatay (Antioch) could not be reached by air because the airport’s runway, built on the Amik plain despite the warnings of scientists, took heavy damage. Most of the hospitals in Hatay where the wounded headed had collapsed. The town halls no longer existed.
The trauma created by the earthquake, which impacted 10 provinces in Turkiye, was enormous. This was compounded by the realization that help from the state failed to show up in their time of need.
The video shot by Bolu Mayor Tanju Ozcan, who reached Elbistan 24 hours after the earthquake, showed the frantic state of survivors still waiting for help. While the leveled city was covered with a white blanket of snow, Özcan explained that the few aid workers who existed could do nothing. “There are live people here,” he said, pointing to the wreckage.
The 7.4-magnitude Golcuk earthquake that hit Istanbul in 1999 had also shaken the nation with the desperate cries of those trapped in the rubble – and forever altered national politics in its aftermath.
Many who remembered the backlash against authorities during the 1999 catastrophe were shocked to realize that there was actually a functioning state present at that time. The failure to respond to this latest disaster has raised questions about the government’s preparedness and ability to provide assistance in times of crisis.
Inadequate disaster response
Turkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD), under the Ministry of Interior, is responsible for handling national disasters and emergencies. Unlike many other countries where disaster response executives are military experts, AFAD executives in Turkiye are mostly Imam-Hatip (religious school) graduates with questionable qualifications. The agency was also criticized for being understaffed and having major coordination issues.
In the first critical hours after the earthquake, AFAD officers either never arrived at the wreckage or came to only take notes. The lack of available equipment, such as cranes and construction equipment, made it difficult to reach the affected areas.
Experienced miners in the Black Sea region were not dispatched until 48 hours after the earthquake. In contrast, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) were deployed within a short period of time during the 1999 Golcuk earthquake, but only 3,500 soldiers were deployed in the first 24 hours this time round.
Civil mobilization and social media bans
On 7 February, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency (OHAL) in the disaster zone and a week of mourning. Despite the outpouring of support from the opposition municipalities and civil society, the government faced criticism for its slow response and lack of preparation. In addition, the Turkish Red Crescent was virtually absent on the ground.
Erdogan responded to criticism by lashing out and claiming that he would address the “lies” and “distortions” leveled at his administration in due course. However, the very next day, social media, which was being used by civil society to save lives via search and rescue posts, was shut down, causing immense outrage.
Access was restored only after celebrated Turkish singer Haluk Levent, known for his charity work, called out the authorities and referred to the social media ban as “equivalent to murder.”
The role of the Turkish army
Perhaps the most controversial issue was the response of the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) to the catastrophe. Despite the presence of 50 thousand Turkish soldiers in Syria, only 3500 troops were deployed in the first 24 hours after the earthquake.
Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar was correct when he explained that Turkish troops were delayed due to weather conditions and destroyed land routes. But the failure of President Erdogan to effectively mobilize the TAF did not go unnoticed.
Retired officers who took part in the relief efforts for the 1999 Golcuk earthquake had raised warnings in the early hours of this month’s disaster. Retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz called for amphibious ships to be sent to the Iskenderun Bay to help Hatay. Meanwhile, teams from countries such as Russia, Spain, and Israel had already established field hospitals.
Experts pointed to the fact that the TAF’s ability and capacity to respond to such disasters had been significantly reduced after and even before the 2016 attempted coup. The closure of the prestigious Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) was cited as an example.
Retired Admiral Turker Erturk, former Black Sea commander, emphasized the importance of the army’s role in both responding to natural disasters and external threats, stating:

“The government destroyed the health facilities and capabilities of the Turkish army and the field hospitals. They also enacted a law so that the TAF would not interfere in such matters. The TAF had security, public order and aid plans called EMASYA, and the Natural Disaster Relief Plan called DAFYAR. Erdogan made laws and destroyed them. He prevented the military from rushing to the aid of the people.”

Elections and the fate of Erdogan’s AKP
Erdogan’s 20-year term at Turkiye’s helm was built on the wounds inflicted by the 1999 Golcuk earthquake. Ironically, his political downfall could now be brought about by the 2023 one.
On 9 February, a Turkish official informed Reuters that “there are serious difficulties ahead of holding the elections on May 14.” President Erdogan’s mandate only allows him to postpone the elections in case of war, which requires the approval of his opposition. However, there are already suggestions that he may use the state of emergency as a delaying tactic.
Erdogan may have already hinted at this, without directly mentioning the elections: “We believe that we will complete this process, which means the construction of hundreds of thousands of houses with their infrastructure and superstructure, in a short time. I want one year from you.”
Orhan Bursali, a columnist for Cumhuriyet Daily, is of this opinion, as he believes Erdogan fears significant losses if they were to proceed on schedule. Bursali cites Turkiye’s poor economic conditions and corruption as reasons for this calculation.
“Now, this great earthquake has created the natural conditions for postponing the election. This opportunity is in the pocket of the Palace,” he said.
Dr Fatih Yaşli, on the other hand contends that Erdogan’s authority to postpone the elections is only in question “in case of war,” which he considers a remote possibility, even if the president manages to strike a compromise with the opposition.
Yaşli posits that the construction-oriented economy and politics based on rent distribution adhered to by Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) for 20 years have collapsed with this earthquake. He points out that Turkish anger is not limited to the earthquake-struck regions and can be observed countrywide, disrupting the president’s carefully laid plans:

“The earthquake made it difficult for Erdogan, who was already going through hard times and whose chair was shaking. He also sees that the probability of winning in an election held through normal means is slim. For this reason – if he does not engage in the madness of postponing the elections indefinitely – he has no choice but to pursue a tougher policy in the coming days, to increase the pressure on the opposition, and to lead the country to the elections in an atmosphere of emergency where the state will use all its means.”

Ramifications on foreign policy
Foreign policy analyst and political scientist Aydin Sezer warns that Erdogan’s AKP is facing a difficult situation and cannot evade the issues by hiding behind the magnitude of the earthquake – or linking the destruction to “fate and religion” and distributing cash to placate the public, as in the past.
Sezer argues that “the election is not just about the transfer of power, it’s a matter of survival for the AKP.” This could compel Erdogan to create an urgent, dire situation in Syria that can be interpreted as a “war.”
In light of these circumstances, it is crucial to understand the delicate state of Turkiye’s relations with its western NATO allies, particularly in regard to Syria.
While the earthquake brought together the destinies of Turkiye and Syria in mere minutes, it is significant that Ankara did not respond to calls to open its borders and create an air corridor for aid outside the territories controlled by Turkish ally and Al-Qaeda-affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Before the earthquake, Turkiye had established contact with Damascus through Russian mediation, which had already drawn the ire of Washington. The Joe Biden administration has openly objected to any potential reconciliation between Ankara and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
The recent earthquake in Turkiye and the ongoing election agenda have sparked a heated debate about the direction the country is heading in. With the Biden administration objecting to Ankara’s Syria policy, and the financial burden of the earthquake, there is now immense political and economic pressure on the Turks to participate in sanctions against Russia.
Turkiye’s economy, which was already struggling with high inflation, high exchange rates, and falling living standards, is estimated to have suffered a financial loss of more than $100 billion due to the earthquake. The affected zone accounts for 8.7 percent of the country’s exports, worth $19.76 billion, and there is a risk of a decrease in production and exports, as well as a new wave of migration from the region.
Post-quake Turkiye?
In this context, long-term loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and EU are being discussed. The US and EU still need NATO-member Turkiye, but they do not consider President Erdogan a reliable partner in the alliance.
This disaster is likely to affect the political and economic balances in Turkiye, and the outcome domestically is unclear. Erdogan’s first move after the earthquake was to phone the leaders of the right-wing parties in the Turkish opposition bloc – excluding the leader of his mainstream opposition, the social-democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP) – raising the possibility of a right-wing “national unity government.”
This scenario would mean a new Turkish re-alignment with the west and the US. Postponing the elections until autumn by reconciling with the opposition would maintain the policy of balance between the west and the east, while indefinitely postponing them would reinforce the notion of pivoting toward the east.
Turkiye faces a complex political and economic situation, and it is unclear which direction the country will take in the short term. In the meantime, the Turkish people are experiencing the trauma of this uncertainty, and the absence of the “sacred state.”

 

[Beyrutkapı]

A great humanity tragedy is experienced in the 10 provinces and villages of these provinces affected by the earthquake. The fact that the search and rescue teams on duty in the region were also under the rubble since the first earthquake, and the collapse of the entire infrastructure, especially the highways and airports, turned everything into a chaos. It was too late to respond to the earthquake zone and thousands of people froze to death when they could have been saved.
In addition, there was a great solidarity and cooperation between people. This terrible destruction brought people together in a way that psychopaths could never understand. Thousands of people who refuse to play the victim role in front of their televisions in fear and despair have take the road and are doing their best.
As the Cassiopaeans often repeat, it's all about lessons. The accumulation of unlearned lessons strikes in cycles and stronger each time. We see this once again in this terrible destruction in Turkey. Although the country experienced a terrible destruction in 1999, nothing has actually changed despite all these years. And yes, negligence and insensitivity create terrible dangers in this world. And when we look at the state of the planet today, humanity has not even awakened to the reality of psychopathy, let alone its awareness of different densities. Maybe that's why answers have to be learned the hard way, as in Turkey today.

 

[dmnlksm]

Rescue efforts from the wreckage continue. There are still people and pets coming out of collapsed buildings. Aid campaigns continue at a great pace. It seems that order has been restored to a certain extent in the earthquake zones. Media attacks on the opposition by the government and on the AKP government by the opposition have started. Will the May 14 general election be postponed? They have already started to test this...

Turkey's next election seems to be fateful for both the west and the east.



"At least 31,974 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, the country's disaster agency said on Tuesday."

Nearly 32,000 dead from powerful twin earthquakes in southern Türkiye

Last week's twin quakes, centered in Kahramanmaras, impact more than 13M people across 10 provinces - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr