Earthquake in reverse time: From disaster to injustice

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Massive Body Loss is a website that Zeynep Kozoğlu and Belkıs Sena Top created as a collaboration. It documents and provides an open-source digital source of events in and around Turkey that have caused massive body losses over the last century. I research Antakya’s devastating earthquakes. The project superimposes past earthquakes with the latest February 6th, 2023 earthquake, using the mirror as an element for superimposition. This layered approach emphasizes Antakya as a palimpsest city, revealing its historical layers and highlighting the continuous impact of these disasters on the city’s fabric. The research delves into maps, archival photographs, oral history, and historical letters to comprehensively view earthquakes throughout Antakya.