Continually on alert against earthquakes as a country sitting on hundreds of fault lines, Turkey marks Earthquake Awareness Week with a series of events on disaster preparedness.
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), founded about one decade after the earthquake to ensure better responses to earthquakes and other large-scale disasters, spearheads the efforts to teach the public how to be prepared against the quakes. AFAD's Earthquake Simulation Center in the capital city of Ankara particularly caters to students in an effort to prepare younger generations against the disasters. Thousands of students are hosted at the center, where they experience an earthquake first-hand and are taught what to do in case of an earthquake.
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