Tectonics

• Tectonics- Syria

  • 6th February 2023
  • Many Historical sites were damaged
  • An estimated 5.4 million people made homeless
  • Over 5.1 billion dollars worth of damage
  • 3.5 million aid
  • First earthquake was 7.8 magnitude and the second was 7.5
  • Struck when people where sleeping
  • 150 miles north of the Syrian border.
• Tectonics- Türkiye

  • More than 4 million buildings were damaged
  • A gas pipeline exploded in Hatay
  • An estimated 2.7 million people made homeless
  • Over 100 billion damage in Türkiye
  • More than 577 tonnes of medical aid given in the past year.
  • The earthquake's epicenter was 34km west of the city Gaziantep in Southern Türkiye near the Northern border of Syria.
  • Constructed 500,000 new houses
  • Removed up to 210 million tones of rubble.
• Tectonics- Volcan De Feugo

  • Located on a destructive plate boundary, the Cocos plate is subducted under the Caribbean plate.
  • In the South West of Guatemala
  • No early warning signs were detected. Residents has no time to evacuate before the eruption.
  • Feugo monitoring station only has one seismometer.
  • Caused food shortages, deaths and homelessness
• Tectonics- Volcan De Feugo Facts

  • 3rd June 2018
  • 190 killed
  • 57 injured
  • 256 people missing
  • 3100 people were evacuated in the following days
  • Canada and USA provided Doctors