Re-Welfare Party Darıca Mayor Candidate Fatma Kurtuluş was the guest of a local television. While Kurtuluş was talking about earthquake projects on the air, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake occurred, which was also felt in Darıca, centered in Çanakkale. Kurtuluş, who started by introducing himself on a local television channel he joined, started to talk about earthquake projects in the following part of the program. Showing the map of the earthquakes that occurred between 1900 and 2013, Re-Welfare Party Darıca Mayor Candidate Fatma Kurtuluş said: “We, as a nation, have memorized this map. There is an Istanbul earthquake expected. Currently, geothermal resources are distributed throughout Türkiye. These sources show symptoms 2 or 3 days before the earthquake. Before the earthquake that occurred in Kahramanmaraş last year, water vapor emerged from Kuşkayası Mountain in Kahramanmaraş. It's a symptom. If this had been done and an emergency action plan had been worked out, our citizens could at least have been evacuated with the early warning system. We prepared our evacuation plans on a district and neighborhood basis. Our evacuation plans are ready. Our priority is the life safety of citizens.
Again, things to consider before an earthquake: increase in water temperature, gas emissions, turbidity, change in water flow rate and new hot water sources... New hot water sources emerged in Yalova during the earthquake that occurred in 1999. In fact, natural events are symptoms and warnings. Our earthquake experts know this better. Our Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Candidate is Prof. Dr. Our teacher Doğan Aydal is also an earthquake expert. He is a geologist. I think it is the greatest blessing that has ever happened to Kocaeli. Because we are an earthquake city.”
