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February 6th earthquake: Current situation analysis and needs assessment - Research report
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This study presents recovery needs assessment across selected sectors and presents findings on key challenges for recovery from the 2023 Turkiye-Syria Earthquakes.
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In a bid to prevent damage from any future quake, both the national government and local administrations are racing against time to alleviate the pain of the February quake while also preparing their cities for potential disasters in the future..
Associated Press
Update
Google's earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February's deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Istanbul, Turkey
Update
The Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation, TÜRKONFED, representing 30 federations and 300 associations with more than 60,000 companies as members, has crisis management as part of its core strategy.
Connecting Business initiative
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Documents and publications
This policy brief details the impact of this natural hazard on Syrians living under Temporary Protection in Türkiye and how it exacerbates their pre-existing precarious living conditions.
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To address the increasing frequency of wildfires in Türkiye, the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Koç Holding, the Turkish Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, and Deloitte launched the FireAId initiative in January 2022
World Economic Forum
Turkish schoolgirls in uniform walking in a street
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Since 2017, 57 schools have been built by the Turkish Ministry of National Education to be safer and more resilient to disaster, with support from the World Bank, GFDRR and the EU.
World Bank, the
Research briefs
Remote sensing imagery is widely used in disaster response due to its easy accessibility and timeliness and can clearly reflect changes in features caused by earthquakes using pre- and post-earthquake image comparisons.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd

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