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	[ATSO - Adapazari Chamber Of Trade And Commerce] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The province of Sakarya has been founded close to the South-West edge of the plain that has the same name with the province, so it has a location which is considered as a bridgehead and a junction point on the region where the historical Istanbul-Anatolia road goes beyond the river Sakarya.
		The province land is surrounded by Duzce and mountain of Bolu from the East; by Golpazari and Osmaneli districts of Bilecik from the South; by Kandira, Izmit, and Golcuk districts of Kocaeli from the West, and by the Black Sea from the North in the term of administratition.
		The weather in the province is rainy and humid, and the climate is mild.
	www.adptso.org.tr /atsoen/sakarya.asp?Icerik=Genel (2516 words)

	Discover Turkey: Earthquakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The quake's epicentre was in the province of Van on the Iranian border, 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) east of Ankara, said the official from Istanbul's Kandilli seismic studies centre.
		The epicentre of the quake, which hit Adana province and caused panic among the population, was in the vicinity of the city of Adana, according to the Kandilli Seismic Institute in Istanbul.
		DUZCE, Turkey, Nov 13 1999 (AFP) - Turkey, scene of a massive earthquake Friday in which at least 269 people died, lies over a fault in the earth's surface running east to west and is frequently shaken by quakes and temblors, often with serious consequences.
	turkeyhumanrights.fw.bz /Quakes.htm (10458 words)

	RTE News: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At least 300 buildings were destroyed in the north western province of Bolu, and many more people are believed to be trapped under rubble.
		Its epicentre was in the town of Duzce, on the main road between Ankara and Istanbul, 115 miles east of Istanbul - the same area where some 17,000 people were killed by an earthquake in August.
		Duzce is about 150 miles from Bursa where the Republic of Ireland is due to play Turkey in the Euro 2000 qualifying match next Wednesday.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/1113/print/turkey.html (240 words)

	Turkey: Earthquake - ACT: 18-Jan-01
		The loss of life in Duzce was concentrated in a few collapsed buildings that had been "lightly" damaged during the August 1999 earthquake, superficially repaired and inhabited again.
		In Duzce, a large concentration of the earthquake damage is concentrated in Kaynasli, a small town on the main highway between Duzce and Bolu.
		The Duzce copper and silver embroidery workshop will be relocated from its current location in the Duzce Cultural Centre to a new facility in downtown Duzce, very close to where the current participants are living.
	www.cidi.org /disaster/01a/ixl20.html (14912 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » UNICEF Recovery Plan for Turkish Children Situation Report 20 Jan 2000
		With the exception of Sakarya and Yalova provinces, the population sheltered in tent camps in Kocaeli, Bolu and Duzce provinces is higher than the population sheltered in prefabricated houses.
		Despite contrary trends in Duzce province, it is observed that in general, the earthquake affected population is beginning to settle into the prefabricated cities, when compared to figures available in previous weeks.
		Even though many residents of the provinces are able to obtain water from the municipal water network in some areas, they prefer to drink water from the tankers because of their concerns of water contamination due to broken pipes.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/4a1e2ad2dba8b473c1256872005ab205 (3260 words)

	World: Turkish quake leaves hundreds dead
		DUZCE, Turkey (AP) - After working through the night with floodlights, rescue teams searched in the rubble in northwestern Turkey today for survivors of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the region the night before.
		In Duzce (pronounced ``dooz-jeh''), military helicopters flew in to transfer badly wounded patients to hospitals in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
		Duzce's hospital was evacuated after the quake, forcing doctors to set up small surgery units in the garden.
	www.seacoastonline.com /1999news/11_13_w2.htm (734 words)

	Quake rocks Turkey, 321 dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		DUZCE (TURKEY), NOV 13: At least 321 people were killed and 1,860 injured in the powerful earthquake which struck northwestern Turkey on Friday, Labor Minister Yasar Okuyan told the NTV news channel on Saturday.
		Earlier, Okuyan had told the NTV news channel from Duzce, the epicentre of the quake, that around 100 people were killed in the province while close to 500 others were injured.
		The quakestruck Duzce at 1657 GMT and was followed by dozens of aftershocks, the smallest of which measured 4.5, the Kandilli Seismological Institute in Istanbul said.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19991114/ige14033.html (550 words)

	Turkey Is Rocked by Another Deadly Quake (washingtonpost.com)
		Bolu was one of eight northwestern provinces hit by an Aug. 17 earthquake quake which claimed more than 17,000 lives, and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
		But the first images broadcast on Turkish television from Duzce late tonight showed row upon row of crumpled buildings and hundreds of dazed survivors seeking their loved ones amid the rubble.
		A handful of doctors at the hospital in Duzce struggled to cope with the steady stream of wounded.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=world&contentId=A58669-1999Nov12¬Found=true (859 words)

	Turkey: Earthquake - OFDA-11: 18-Nov-99
		The GOT reports that all the prefabricated housing constructed for the Izmit earthquake in August is full to capacity and thus not available to house people displaced by that Duzce earthquake.
		OSOCC is tentatively planning to move to the city of Bolu, the provincial capital of Bolu Province, within the next 48 hours.
		The epicenter of the earthquake was in the town of Duzce (population 200,000) in the Bolu Province in northwestern Turkey, 115 miles east of Istanbul.
	www.cidi.org /disaster/99b/0201.html (936 words)

	Voice of America, 99-11-14
		Lying halfway between the Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, the lush hilly province is a favorite weekend getaway for city dwellers.
		She is at least the fifth person to be rescued from this particular collapsed building in Duzce.
		The province was among those struck in the devastating August earthquake, which claimed over seventeen- thousand lives, but had escaped relatively unscathed at the time.
	www.hri.org /news/agencies/voa/1999/99-11-14.voa.html (3489 words)

	Zonguldak Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zonguldak is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey.
		Its adjacent provinces are Duzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabuk to the southeast, and BartÄ±n to the east.
		The most important ancient cities within Zonguldak Province are EreÄli ( Heraclea Pontica) and Filyos ( Teion).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zonguldak_Province (522 words)

	QuakeNews
		In Duzce, a farming town at the earthquake's epicenter, the quake tore out the center of a turn-of-the-century mosque, leaving only the walls standing.
		Bolu province is just 45 miles (72 km) east of the region worst hit by the August 17 quake.
		Friday's quake was not an aftershock to the August 17 quake, but the fault that ruptured near Duzce is part of Turkey's intricate fault grid, according to quake experts.
	windupradio.com /quakenews.htm (2053 words)

	Düzce Province - TheBestLinks.com - Duzce Province, Ankara, Black Sea, Greece, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Duzce Province, Düzce Province, Ankara, Black Sea, Greece, Istanbul, November...
		It is on the coastline on the Black Sea and is traversed by the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara.
		Düzce broke off from Bolu and became a province in its own right after a devasting earthquake in the city in November 1999.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Duzce_Province.html (136 words)

	Earth Changes TV - Large 7.2 Quake Hits Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An employee of the hospital in Duzce told Anatolia that a nurse was killed when an old building on the hospital complex collapsed in the tremor.
		A 39-year-old woman died of a heart attack in the town of Yalova in the Kocaeli province on the Marmara Sea coast, while two people were killed in the neighbouring province of Sakarya, the agency said.
		In a live telephone interview with the NTV channel, the chief of police in Bolu appealed for ambulances but added that the main motorway between Bolu and Istanbul was closed.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/November/1112turkey.htm (469 words)

	Observations of the November 12, 1999, Düzce Earthquake
		The initial magnitude assigned to this event is Mw=7.2, and it was centered near the town of Duzce in the province of Bolu.
		As of November 26, 1999, the casualties caused by the Duzce earthquake are estimated at 755 along with 4958 injuries.
		Ground accelerations were recorded at the Duzce station, based on which, the maximum longitudinal accelerations are estimated as 0.39g for longitudinal, 0.31g for transverse and 0.5g for vertical directions, respectively.
	www.usc.edu /dept/civil_eng/structural_lab/eq-rp/Turkey-99-11-12.html (1775 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Homeless suffer as quake toll rises
		Almost all of the buildings are collapsed or uninhabitable in the city of Duzce - the quake's epicentre - about 111 miles east of Istanbul.
		The province's governor, Nusret Miroglu, on Friday pledged to try to get the homeless out of tents and into better shelter.
		The Anatolia news agency reported that the government was planning to shelter some 8,000 quake victims in public housing along Turkey's Mediterranean coast, hundreds of miles south of the quake zone.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/528385.stm (361 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News 11/22/1999
		Following the increased insecurity in and around Bujumbura, the population of the province has been regrouped into some 50 camps around the capital.
		MSF had agreed to bring assistance to the regrouped population, in order to provide primary relief and prevent the outbreak of epidemics due to overcrowding, lack of drinking water and lack of shelter at the start of the rainy season.
		Compared to the Izmit quake, in Duzce there were far fewer casualties since the area was sparsely populated and the emergency response was much improved.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/1999/11-22-1999.htm (1494 words)

	Guardian \| Istanbul warned to expect earthquake
		Seismologists at the country's Kandilli observatory warned that a major fault system had been activated, and that it was only a question of when, not if, the metropolis would be levelled.
		Freezing, homeless survivors of Friday's earthquake in Duzce said they would rather live in tents than accept shelter in Istanbul, 170 kilometres to the west.
		Yet he gave permission for it to be demolished, allowing the rescuers to hunt for survivors rather than spend hours extracting the dead.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3930448-103681,00.html (565 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Turkey quake toll rises
		Reports said casualties in Duzce had to be treated in the garden of the local hospital, as the building had to be evacuated because it was unsafe.
		Hundreds of people gathered in Duzce's park, huddling around makeshift fires as temperatures fell to 3 C by the early morning.
		Thursday's tremor was centered on the town of Sapanca in Sakarya province which is still recovering from the massive quake on 17 August that killed at least 17,000 people.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/517878.stm (451 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-11-14
		Death toll continues to increase in the wake of the earthquake which devastated Duzce and Kaynasli counties of Bolu province.
		DUZCE, Nov 14 (A.A) - Death toll increased to 282 on Sunday in Duzce county of Bolu province which was devastated by Friday's massive earthquake.
		Addressing a press conference, Pinar said that 70 aftershocks were recorded in the region in the wake of Friday's 7.2-magnitude quake that was centered on Duzce county of Bolu province.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-11-14.anadolu.html (4011 words)

	tribuneindia... World
		Late yesterday, coal miners from the Black Sea province of Zonguldak, one of the first teams to arrive in the region, pulled a mother and daughter from the second floor of a multi-storey building also in Duzce, the all-news NTV channel said.
		The earthquake struck the town of Duzce on Friday with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter Scale.
		The court in the south-western province of Totonicapan on Saturday found 62-year-old Candido Noriega guilty on six charges of murder and two of manslaughter, radio stations reported.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99nov15/world.htm (2943 words)

	The Examiner - World News - 13, November, 1999
		It was centred in Bolu province, which includes Duzce, a hilly region located halfway between Ankara and Istanbul and hit at 6:57 p.m.
		Main communication lines with Duzce were cut after the quake.
		Two people died in the province Sakarya and reports of injuries came in from numerous towns and cities.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/11/13/fpage_8.htm (487 words)

	Earthquake Museum-1999 Earthquakes
		The city of Duzce in northwestern Turkey was struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 at 16:59 GMT 11/12/99.
		Bolu province where the quake was centered is just 45 miles east of the areas hit hardest by the August quake.
		An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit the Chamoli and Garhwal districts of Uttar Pradesh in India, in the foothills of the Himalayas, at 19:05 GMT 3/28/99.
	www.olympus.net /personal/gofamily/quake/1999quakes.html (1903 words)

	USAFE News Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		DUZCE, Turkey (USAFENS) -- A 22-person humanitarian assessment team from Incirlik's 39th Air Expeditionary Squadron is currently evaluating the damage in and around Duzce, Turkey, following the country's second major earthquake in three months.
		The first quake, which struck near Izmit, Turkey, some 100 miles west of Duzce, also prompted U.S. government assistance in the form of a similar humanitarian assessment mission called Operation Avid Response.
		Team specialists are inspecting public health, local water supplies, electrical power infrastructure and the structural integrity of existing buildings.
	www.usafe.af.mil /news/news99/uns99347.htm (356 words)

	OSU Assessment of Kocaeli earthquake - Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Duzce Turkey earthquake damage map as of 14 November, 1999.
		Earthquake-related economic costs and policies of the Turkey government as described in a letter from the Minister of State for Economic Affairs and the Governor of the Central Bank to the International Monetary Fund.
		The EQE reports on the Izmit and Duzce quakes.
	terra.geo.orst.edu /users/turkey/links.html (2137 words)

	BLACK SEA REGION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Yildiz (Istranca) Mountains bisect the province of Kirklareli.
		The Samandere waterfall is in Duzce County's Kaynasli Samandere village 25 km south of the D 100 highway.
		Lake Efteni, 14 km southwest of Duzce housing many species of birds in a pristine setting is a wonderful, relaxing spot for bird watchers.
	www.tourismturkey.org /regions/blacksea/blacksea_M.html (4645 words)

	CNN - Strong earthquake rattles Turkey; at least 20 reported dead - November 12, 1999
		Friday's quake was centered in the Bolu province town of Duzce in northwestern Turkey, 185 kilometers (115 miles) east of Istanbul.
		Hospital officials in Duzce, overwhelmed by the casualties, were treating injured people in the facility's garden.
		Bolu province lies on the edges of the area affected by the August 17 quake, which measured 7.4, leveled thousands of buildings and set off a chain of aftershocks that have continued throughout the fall.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9911/12/turkey.quake.02 (445 words)

	CNN - Turkish earthquake toll tops 360 dead, 1,800 injured - November 13, 1999
		KAYNASLI, Turkey (CNN) -- Weary and anxious Turks are huddled around fires outside shelters, some having lost their homes, others too scared to return inside buildings battered by the western Turkey earthquake that Turkish officials say has left at least 362 dead and 1,800 injured.
		In Duzce, a farming town at the epicenter, the quake tore out the center of a turn-of-the- century mosque, leaving only the walls standing.
		Turkey's government, which was severely criticized for its slow response to the August 17 quake that left more than 17,000 people dead, emphasized that it was rushing aid to the stricken area.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9911/13/turkey.quake.03 (799 words)

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