7.5M Earthquake Threat to Modern Istanbul Shown in History
Laying on the border between Europe and Asia, the mega city of Istanbul is one of the most impressive on either continent. Boasting a population of some 14 million people, the city split by the Bosphorous Strait is one of the most diverse and rapidly expanding in the world, yet an ominous portent hangs over it due to its location close to the North Anatolian Fault Zone.
Experts say that a major earthquake is due to strike the city within the next thirty years. Although construction firms have increasingly designed buildings with this consideration in mind, the event is still likely to be devastating on a human and economic level.
“It’s inevitable, a certainty,” Professor Okan Tuysuz, director of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences at Istanbul’s Technical University, told the Guardian in 2006, “We know the scale. We know the place. We just don’t know exactly when…”
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