I'm seeing all kinds of "thoughts and prayers" post for turkey and syria. That got me thinking about if I heard anything about their support of us durring 911, Katrina, and the BLM?
Powerful earthquake hit southern Turkey (7.8)
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Mother Nature is going to get hers.RIP to everyone.
A student came to me about some shit she was dealing with not long after I heard this news. I told her “imagine what you’re doing through with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake happening and building crumbling on your head.”
Personally, I always put what I’m going through in perspective. It helps and humbles me.
Yep I had to remind a few people a couple of days ago that that shit could easily happen in America. It’s not a matter of if….it’s a matter of when.
RIP to everyone.
A student came to me about some shit she was dealing with not long after I heard this news. I told her “imagine what you’re doing through with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake happening and building crumbling on your head.”
Personally, I always put what I’m going through in perspective. It helps and humbles me.
Don't scare kids like that. Yellowstone will soon become active and blow the entire continent off the face of the Earth so we won't even have to worry about large-scale earthquakes.
RIP to everyone.
A student came to me about some shit she was dealing with not long after I heard this news. I told her “imagine what you’re doing through with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake happening and building crumbling on your head.”
Personally, I always put what I’m going through in perspective. It helps and humbles me.
Earlier this week, Kılıçdaroğlu visited several regions affected by the earthquakes, where residents complained about the lack of efficient search and rescue operations.
Critics say Turkey’s national funds meant for natural disasters were instead spent on highway construction projects managed by the government’s associates. In many areas the buildings that collapsed were built in early 2010 or as recently as the last couple of years and should normally have complied with earthquake regulations in force after the 1999 disaster.
Emergency teams are struggling to reach some of the affected areas, held back by broken roads, poor weather, and lack of resources and heavy equipment, as some areas are without fuel or electricity. The centralization of Turkey’s government means a number of restrictions are imposed on how aid organizations can operate, hampering rescue efforts.
www.politico.eu
Erdogan blocking twitter as soon as this happened says it all...
Critics say Turkey’s national funds meant for natural disasters were instead spent on highway construction projects managed by the government’s associates. In many areas the buildings that collapsed were built in early 2010 or as recently as the last couple of years and should normally have complied with earthquake regulations in force after the 1999 disaster.
Emergency teams are struggling to reach some of the affected areas, held back by broken roads, poor weather, and lack of resources and heavy equipment, as some areas are without fuel or electricity. The centralization of Turkey’s government means a number of restrictions are imposed on how aid organizations can operate, hampering rescue efforts.
Anger grows at Erdoğan over Turkey’s earthquake response
The devastating earthquakes could delay upcoming elections as Turkey’s president faces backlash.
www.politico.eu
Erdogan blocking twitter as soon as this happened says it all...
Man, they probably don’t even know Yellowstone is even a volcano if they even know what Yellowstone is in the fist place.
Wow
Damn man
I'm thoroughly amazed and can't understand why you don't/haven't updated your thread title with current lossesDamn man
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What? What type of reply is this??? there’s other people looking at the same story who is updating my thread. What is your problem?
What is your.... problem... I only asked a simple question about keeping the title current....... pull your diaper out of your ass the next time your nurse helps you to stand up.... jeeez....
sidebar: for the love of God.... why the fuck you keep typing gibberish man.... look at that sentence that you attempted to type
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Your question was very irrelevant in my opinionWhat is your.... problem... I only asked a simple question about keeping the title current....... pull your diaper out of your ass the next time your nurse helps you to stand up.... jeeez....
sidebar: for the love of God.... why the fuck you keep typing gibberish man.... look at that sentence that you attempted to type
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There’s various “unbreakable” baby stories during this natural disaster.. definitely need to be a future documentary about these kids and where they are now
As Anger Swells Over Quake, Turkey Detains Building Contractors
As the death toll in Turkey and Syria passed 28,000, Ankara was coming under growing criticism for its slow response and tolerance of shoddy construction.
In typical Erdogan fashion, he will "punish" the contractors he helped empower previously
As Anger Swells Over Quake, Turkey Detains Building Contractors
As the death toll in Turkey and Syria passed 28,000, Ankara was coming under growing criticism for its slow response and tolerance of shoddy construction.www.nytimes.com
In typical Erdogan fashion, he will "punish" the contractors he helped empower previously
They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway.
Some structures promoted as being built to modern seismic codes did not withstand the quake in Turkey. One upscale tower that fell may have had a design flaw, engineers said.
The upscale three-year-old housing complex of Asur in the Turkish city of Malatya, replete with chandeliers and marble floors, promised to be earthquake safe, built with the best materials to modern seismic codes. Residents in the middle-class neighborhood paid more for those assurances.
One of the compound’s two buildings collapsed in the early hours of Feb. 6, concrete and steel tumbling to the ground in a cloud of dust when a strong aftershock hit the region hours after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
It is a pattern that has emerged elsewhere in the earthquake zone: Some structures built to new, strict seismic standards were flattened while others nearby still stood, including older ones that came before the updated rules.
“We didn’t choose our apartment because of the marble bathrooms and beautiful light fixtures,” said Mine Goze, 42, who lives in Block A of the compound with her husband and two children. “We knew we were moving to a high-risk earthquake zone and wanted to be in a safe building, even if it meant paying double the rate of rent in the area.”
Ms. Goze’s husband, who had gone back to their apartment to assess the damage and rescue their cat, managed to get out just before the building collapsed. Most of the residents had already evacuated after the first earthquake.
“It was a close call, many people could have died,” Ms. Goze said. “We demand answers. Why did our building collapse while the other building in our compound remained intact?”
The earthquake and aftershocks that struck southeastern Turkey, killing more than 31,000 people, were strong enough to destroy even buildings that adhered to the codes. But the scope of the devastation, and inconsistent damage to newer buildings, has focused increased scrutiny on the country’s construction regulations and developers’ compliance with the codes aimed at making buildings earthquake safe.
A video of the Asur collapse, analyzed by three engineers with extensive knowledge of buildings and engineering practices in Turkey, found that it was most likely the result of poor structural design. The engineers, who independently assessed the video, all pointed to a flaw known as a weak story.
Each story of a building should have enough lateral strength and stiffness to transfer the load during an earthquake all the way to the ground, said one of the engineers, Mustafa Mahamid, a researcher at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. When it doesn’t, he said, the weak story can fail, bringing the building down with it.
“The concrete started collapsing on the ground floor,” said Dr. Mahamid, who has lived and studied in Turkey.
Ihsan Celik, the developer of the residential block that collapsed in the Asur compound, said that the construction of the building was carried out in compliance with the latest regulations, using the highest quality of concrete reinforced with steel bars. He acknowledged that an engineering error may have occurred, causing the collapse of the bottom floor, but said he could not comment further with an ongoing investigation.
“We are still investigating what happened and cannot be sure, but this was a very strong earthquake causing several other new buildings to collapse in the area and people died,” Mr. Celik said. “Thankfully no one died in our building, and we have more than 70 other buildings in the area that are undamaged.”
Across the country, anger is mounting over the lives lost and the millions now without homes and businesses. The Turkish authorities have detained or arrested more than 10 contractors accused of violating building regulations. Several developers were caught trying to flee the country as the Ministry of Justice ordered local officials to set up special units to investigate “earthquake crimes.”
Mr. Celik and his company, Ishak Insaat, have not been implicated in these detentions.
“We draft the laws well, but we do not implement them. This is our biggest problem,” said Pelin Pinar Giritlioglu, the president of the Istanbul branch of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects.
But lax enforcement and poor construction practices persist, dogged by concerns about subpar materials and weak inspection protocols. The problems have been exacerbated by a government-backed building boom in recent years that has reshaped city skylines with large residential building projects that are often delivered hastily, without adequate quality control.
The Asur complex is one of many new residential projects built in Malatya, part of the construction frenzy that spurred economic growth across the country. It marketed itself as a “first-class quality” compound, complete with a soccer field and basketball court, attracting families of doctors, police officers and teachers.
Whether the Asur building was drawn up and constructed with potential shortcomings — or whether later modifications weakened it — was not immediately clear. Even for developers committed to following the latest seismic codes, designing a high-rise structure to withstand the lateral forces, shaking and swaying in an earthquake is no simple task.
The three engineers who analyzed the video of the Asur collapse said there appeared to be a design flaw in the ground floor. As the earth shook during the large aftershock, most of the building showed no initial damage, at least as viewed from the outside. Then within seconds dust began spewing from the ground floor — probably pulverized concrete from overwhelmed vertical columns that were beginning to buckle.
It was quickly followed by visible cracking in the external walls on the ground floor as it started collapsing. Finally, that floor all but vanished as the rest of the building — no longer supported from below — crushed it under the force of gravity.
A consulting engineer in Istanbul who analyzed the Asur collapse, Seref Polat, who has worked in the United States and Turkey, said the video showed that the ground floor was the weak story and unable to handle the lateral forces of the earthquake. “It’s a design error,” Dr. Polat said.
That was also the conclusion of Osman E. Ozbulut, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Virginia whose hometown in Turkey is about an hour’s drive from Malatya. The bottom story, Dr. Ozbulut said, “seems not to be designed as it should be. It failed and the rest of the building collapsed on top of it.”
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Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to defend his response to last Monday's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, videos from a few years back have emerged showing him hailing some of the housing projects that crumbled, killing thousands of people.
Critics say contractors were allowed to skip crucial safety regulations, increasing their profits but putting residents at risk.
The videos have fueled public outrage over slow efforts to help residents in the aftermath of the massive earthquake — the world's deadliest in over a decade — that killed more than 35,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, and left many injured and without a home, food or heating in the middle of winter.
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to defend his response to last Monday's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, videos from a few years back have emerged showing him hailing some of the housing projects that crumbled, killing thousands of people.
Critics say contractors were allowed to skip crucial safety regulations, increasing their profits but putting residents at risk.
The videos have fueled public outrage over slow efforts to help residents in the aftermath of the massive earthquake — the world's deadliest in over a decade — that killed more than 35,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, and left many injured and without a home, food or heating in the middle of winter.
JUST IN - Strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Turkey-Syria border — USGS
Reports of more buildings collapsed in Antakya, Turkey after new earthquake moments ago.
Reports of more buildings collapsed in Antakya, Turkey after new earthquake moments ago.
Good grief
I really hope no one was in those cars
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