{"id":36636,"date":"2011-06-27T19:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=36636"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:57:58","slug":"weak-series-of-quakes-make-tourists-feel-uneasy-at-bodrum-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/27\/weak-series-of-quakes-make-tourists-feel-uneasy-at-bodrum-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak series of quakes make tourists feel uneasy at Bodrum, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earthquake overview : Earthquake-Report.com received a few reports on weak shaking (more felt as a light shaking) from one of Turkey\u2019s most important tourist destinations : Bodrum. Although the shocks caused NO damage or injuries, people asked themselves whether these shocks were the prelude of more and stronger to come.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36638\" style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36638\" title=\"turkey-25062011-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/turkey-25062011-1.jpg\" alt=\"Recent small earthquakes below Bodrum, Turkey. - White lines are mapped seismic faults\" width=\"679\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/turkey-25062011-1.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/turkey-25062011-1-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent small earthquakes below Bodrum, Turkey. - White lines are mapped seismic faults<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UPDATE : A couple of weeks ago, a Turkish seismologist told me during a seminar,  that he had a discussion with the mayor of an important Turkish tourist destination with important faulting zones in the area. The mayor refused to inform tourists about potential earthquakes, as he feared a possible decrease in tourist visits. This example shows that we will probably need a few additional devastating earthquakes before the mindset will be changed to earthquake preparedness.  This story is identical for a lot of Mediterranean destinations like Greece, Italy, Morocco, Croatia etc.<\/p>\n<p>via Weak series of quakes make tourists feel uneasy at Bodrum, Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthquake overview : Earthquake-Report.com received a few reports on weak shaking (more felt as a light shaking) from one of Turkey\u2019s most important tourist destinations : Bodrum. Although the shocks caused NO damage or injuries, people asked themselves whether these shocks were the prelude of more and stronger to come. UPDATE : A couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":36638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[140,888],"class_list":["post-36636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-bodrum","tag-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}