Before and after drone footage shows extent of devastation in quakes-hit Turkey

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

[Haggard Celine]

1. It's going to cost a lot to rebuild all of that.

I hope they get all that they need. Earthquakes are hard to predict, so I guess it happened while everybody was going about their day. N

[2naSalit]

3. I think the initial...

Happened while people were home and in bed. I'll look for info.

[Haggard Celine]

6. Hope so.

Looks like the facades of those buildings just crumbled. Hope there weren't a lot of people on the streets.

[2naSalit]

7. The first big one...

Was after 9pm local time. That's bad because people were at home and many in bed. A lot of the buildings that collapsed into rubble instantly and over the night since several after shocks were also major into the morning were residential buildings. That's why so many are dead, they were home in those buildings, whole families were lost... or families with a lone survivor.

It's really bad.

I'm thinking that when recovery efforts have ended the total dead will be around 70,000. Much of the tally in Syria has not been reported yet.

[NJCher]

8. 100,000

I think I heard this was the figure for the worst earthquake ever and it was in China. So they are getting close.

[Journeyman]

2. It looks too like most of the buildings still standing are uninhabitable . . .

I know they are going after hundreds of contractors for inadequate construction. We'll know they're serious when they begin arresting the building inspectors and the rest of the municipal teams.

[Samrob]

4. We are susceptible to the same kind of devastation with the new condo and housing mania being thrown

up across the country especially in gentrification areas in major cities and surrounding suburbs. I have watched some of these building project and am astounded by the rapidity with which many are completed and the shoddy materials being used. More shocking are the prices indicated and the rapidity with which these shoddy units are being brought at these exorbitant prices...literally being priced so displaced persons are unable to afford to purchase back in their former neighborhoods.

[2naSalit]

5. And then consider...

How many cities and smaller communities were affected in this massive area. Hard to comprehend.

These are all the quakes over the past 30 days, not one was of lower magnitude 4.0.






https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=33.19273,23.9502&extent=41.6565,49.2627&range=month&magnitude=significant&baseLayer=terrain&list=false

[NJCher]

9. So if they rebuild

Could it happen again?

[2naSalit]

10. Yup.

And no telling when they will occur.