Who of you has ever experienced an earthquake in Turkia?

I did, but it was a really sad and bad times of my life...
I dont think people could say about it as experience...

i am sorry but this only makes people to remind those bad times again..

My inquiry was not to upset you. It can't be worse than experiencing bombardments during my younger years while I was a refugee in Germany

I had that also, it was night and when the PKK attacked to the city i was in, at South East of Turkey,

The sky was not black, it was red because of the bullets of the guns...

And i am sorry but these 'experiences' cant be measured as worse, worst...
when there is war, you can find some explanations for something, but for earthquake? who you can blame?

and what can you think about when it starts to shake the bed you sleep in, i had lots of friends lost their mind temporarily...

What is your point actually to listen the story of these "experiences"?

I can only nod in agreement to what you are saying Sui although I have not experienced something as harsh as you are describing. Or you Roswitha. I have thought a lot about what it could have been like but it's not possible to imagine unless you have seen it.

Where I come from we don't have earthquakes or any kind of natural disasters for that matter so it was frightening to me when staying in Hakkâri during "earthquake season". It was also rather frightening to hear clashes between the army and PKK in the night but that's another matter. It must be hard for those who are used to those things being around, you never knowo if something is going to happen.

I have only experience small "tremors". They don't happen frequently where I live, but the ones I have experience did knock you on the floor. Thank God, no damage.

Ankara must get them frequently. When we went a couple of weeks ago to check on my future sister-in-laws apartment, some of her pictures had been knocked off the wall and the glass shattered, but no major damage.

i experienced it in 1999 in Adapazari ( my hometown) and i lost nearly all my friends and most of my relatives and still i have nightmares about it. it cant be described..it is something will affect me for life. but i dont think we should forget earthquake. It will happen again in Istanbul in near future and we are never ready for it!!!

So sorry to hear Ciko..

I know someone who has been through the same sort of thing and he can't sleep well at nights. He is so frightened if his girlfriend turns around in the bed too wildly, because it reminds him things he doesnt like to remember.

I certainly didn't mean any harm or disrespect. I know that earthquakes can cause much damage both property wise and personally. I was just wondering if anyone had any experiences they may like to share" People can respond or ignore. For some, it may even be cathartic.

We lost a 4 members of our family in 1999, Roswitha...you can learn about it by watching the Discovery Channel there isn't any need to remind so many people of such a horrific time. Maybe you remember bombarments, but no one is asking you about them.

I am from one if not the most seismical country on Earth : Chile. We have big eartquakes in the north of the country every 5 years and the big one ever recorded was in my parents hometown : Valdivia it was 9,5 richter scale...YES 9,5 ! and the city was absoluitely destroyed, minutes after this a huge tsunami destroyed all the things that the eartquake hadn't demaged. My grandmother told me the story, she ran to the hills , she was 5 months pregnant , my father was 8 years old and he tells me that his house fell off , people were crying thinking that it was the end of the world , all was desperation and the movement seemed never come to a stop ....this happened in 1960 , you can see images in youtube . Thousands of people died, the same in Santiago, my city in 1985 , I was 2 years old, dont remember anything but we survived and right now we have tremors everyweek but thank God we have no sea here so we are safe from a Tsunami.

Schools try to create a "eartquake" conscience since we are 4 or 5 years old. They taught me how to react and what to do in case of Eartquake but NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY TAUGHT ME , everytime I have a small eartquake or a tremor I panic!!!! because you never now if this is only a tremor or could become something else ...
I am chilean, I got used to live with them and I suppose most chileans , peruvians and people who live in the Pacific side like japanese , got used to the as well, in spite of this , I wouldnt change where I was born ...It was blessed with wonderful nature, from deserts to antarctica, all in one land...
A good thing is that nature constantly reminds you that you ARE NOTHING! just a humble creature that in case of natural disaster remembers how weak life is ...!

Dilara.

Thanks very much for your personal commentary! Got an insight.

I know you didn't indend it Cacık, but your post does read a bit like "dying in an earthquake is your own fault"