• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Earth in practice: Uncertainty, expertise and the expected Istanbul earthquake
  • Beteiligte: Kayaalp, Ebru; Arslan, Onur
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2022
  • Erschienen in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5 (2022) 3, Seite 1579-1596
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/25148486211022451
  • ISSN: 2514-8486; 2514-8494
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  • Beschreibung: In 1999, two devastating earthquakes occurred in Northwestern Turkey, which claimed around 18,000 lives. Since the disaster, many scientific studies and projects, both international and national, have been conducted, concluding that another earthquake at the magnitude of at least six will hit Istanbul. Even though there is a consensus among scientists that an earthquake will happen in Istanbul, there is a plethora of different theories and arguments about the anticipated earthquake. This paper is an historical account of how different technoscientific practices have enacted different North Anatolian Faults stretching across Anatolia and Marmara Sea. The multiplicity of the fault does not emerge as an epistemic problem of having different perspectives, but it is an ontological question of how plural realities are being made in different scientific practices. We argue that scientific uncertainties emerge when these different faults do not fit together in technoscientific circles and across public venues.