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Terrible earthquake- Turkey
montanajoe
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Prayers go out to the folks of Turkey. Good gosh they got hit hard.
Turkey earthquake live updates: Death toll surpasses 11,000 (usatoday.com)
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We had a hard 6.4. I can't even imagine worse. Those poor people. Our thoughts and prayers are with them🙏❤️🙏
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I’m getting to see live reporting from Al Jazerra news, I can assure you that it is far and away more graphic than anything you will be seeing on BBC, CNN, or Fox.
some of the video has been heart wrenching.
Even saw one from a phone taken during the event until everything was obscured by dust. Al Jazeera then followed with video of the same area after the dust settled and apartment building after apartment building had simply pancaked, all 8 to 11 floors.
Mule
Being in construction for a good part of my life there were times when I'd grumble and complain about certain aspects of our building codes, then something like this happens. Prayers for those folks.
Did any of you fellows see the article where they found a 4 year old girl sheltering here younger sibling buried under a huge pile of collapsed material? Alive. There are guardian angels amongst us.
Death toll is up to 21,000. I saw them on ABC News last night rescuing a little 8 year old boy. He had been trapped for 80 hours. A miracle.
This is the most gut-wrenching thing I have seen in a long time.......especially after reading the little girl's plea for help.
God bless these two little souls.
Death toll now over 25,000. They are still finding some alive under the rubble.
Last night, Saturday night, on the 6:30 NBC News they showed the rescue of a lady who had been under the rubble for 115 hours. I don't know how long a person can live without water.
What a catastrophe.
nypost.com
As the death toll in the Monday pair of earthquakes that devastated southeast Turkey and northern Syria reached a staggering 33,179 officials arrested or issued warrants for some 130 people who were allegedly involved in the shoddy construction of buildings that crushed their occupants.
More than 80,000 people were reported injured by the quakes and the death toll in the cataclysmic events were expected to continue rising, as despair among the survivors had turned into rage amid slow rescue and relief efforts and a lack of preparation in the earthquake-prone region.
In Turkey, construction codes that meet current earthquake-engineering standards were rarely enforced, which led to thousands of buildings slumping over on their sides or imploding onto residents, officials said.
Turkey’s justice minister vowed to punish those responsible as prosecutors collected building material to be used as evidence against 131 people suspected of cutting corners on buildings destroyed by the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes.
Two contractors allegedly responsible for the destruction of several buildings in Adiyaman were arrested at Istanbul Airport Sunday before they could catch a flight to Georgia, according to the private DHA news agency and local reports.
A contractor of a luxury 12-story building in the historic city of Antakya that collapsed in the quakes, killing untold victims, was also detained at the airport before he could flee the country.
Two other suspects in the Gaziantep province were arrested on suspicions that they had cut down columns in a building to make extra room in a building that had collapsed, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Playing the bad guy here, but just how concerned would the Turks be if the US has a similar catastrophe? I'm guessing a shrug and a 'so what' would cover it.