Seismic risk

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu has revealed an evacuation strategy for Istanbul, a densely populated city bracing for a potential major earthquake along the region's fault line.

The Minister of Climate Crisis & Civil Protection, Christos Stylianidis, who is in area, said that together with the mayor and the governor and the whole team of local authorities, they decided to set up tents that will be able to accommodate 2,500 people, in order to serve all the families and all the people who should not enter the their homes tonight.

Greece is a country with intense seismic activity. The positive element about this fact is that we have had to be prepared, as a country, for such events with anti-seismic regulations in the construction of buildings, which have been regularly updated since 1959, and seismic risk management programs for work environments and public spaces.

"We ask the government to finally have a clear plan for restoring the country's cinemas," Cannes award winner Mungiu appealed to the Romanian authorities on Monday, saying he was speaking on behalf of all the country's film-makers.