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a journalist who has covered turkey for nearly two decades. shejoins us now. thank you she joins us now. thank you so shejoins us now. thank you so much. let s be clear, it hardly needs saying, this is a humanitarian crisis. but i do wonder whether it could also turn into a political one for turkey s president heard as well? it for turkey s president heard as well? ., , . , well? it does coincide, this disaster. well? it does coincide, this disaster, with well? it does coincide, this disaster, with a well? it does coincide, this disaster, with a general. well? it does coincide, this - disaster, with a general election thatis disaster, with a general election that is expected in may, at the latest, june. so that inevitably gives it a bit of a political dynamic. the opposition leader, who has been very critical of the government s response, says that this isn t an issue about politics and he blames president erdogan s two decades in power and the failure in that time to prepare the
some major earthquakes over the last century. but the east anatolian fault where this earthquake struck has been less active. so tension has built up along it until today when it was released in this huge earthquake. what s made this particularly deadly though is that it struck at a shallow depth, just 11 miles below the surface. this is magnitude seven, nearly magnitude eight. this was a big one. this is an earthquake such as we don t get more than about 20 odd every year somewhere in the world, so this was big, and it was also quite shallow. if the rupture is closer to the surface, you get greater shaking of the ground surface than an earthquake of the same energy that happens at a greater depth. so it is a particularly nasty one. this region s all too familiar with these natural disasters. one of the most destructive happened in 1999, in the west of turkey. the magnitude 7.6 earthquake caused monumental damage, and around 18,000 deaths. but this earthquake