Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), affiliated to the Ministry of Interior, recorded the natural disasters that occurred in Turkey and produced a disaster risk map. According to this map, 107 floods, 66 forest fires, 16 snow/type and 39 landslides occurred in Turkey last year, while the Black Sea region struggled with heavy rainfall and landslides, and the Aegean and Mediterranean with forest fires.
Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) affiliated to our Ministry, Disaster Risk Analysis System (ARAS) as of 2017, in order to use different methods in disaster hazard and risk analyzes, to produce maps that are closest to the truth, to keep analyzes on the same platform by making them from the same environment, and to ensure sharing among relevant institutions. He started his project.
Within the scope of the project, approximately 300 technical personnel conducted inspections on the land, and a total of 34 thousand 593 landslides, 4822 rockfalls, 880 avalanches and 604 sinkholes have been recorded so far. Sensitivity maps completed nationally for landslides, rockfalls and avalanche disasters were made available to all institutions through the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, within the scope of TUCBS (Turkish National Geographic Information Systems).
Among the recorded data were natural disasters that occurred in Turkey last year. Occurring in the past year; 107 floods/floods, 66 forest fires, 16 snow/type and 39 landslides were also recorded via ARAS. In this direction, last year, the most landslide events were seen in the Western and Eastern Black Sea regions, while forest fires struggled with the Aegean and Mediterranean.
AFAD Intervened in 1.760 Disaster Events
1.760 disaster events that occurred last year were responded to under the coordination of AFAD. While a total of 14.157 personnel and 5.026 vehicles were assigned to the floods of Düzce, Rize, Artvin and the Western Black Sea, a total of 22.619 personnel and 7.935 vehicles and construction equipment were assigned to the forest fires that occurred in Antalya, Muğla, Mersin and Adana. In addition, 23.753 earthquakes occurred in our country last year.
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