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Turkish Earthquake
if they know its on a major fault line why do they still build there and particularly high rise buildings?
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Construction firms in Turkey are legally obliged to take the possibility of earthquakes into consideration when designing and erecting new buildings:
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However building still need to be placed where people live and work. It's simply impossible to evacuate everyone (together with the businesses that employ them and the farms that feed them) to those parts of Turkey where the risk of earthquakes is lower.
Similarly, US cities such as San Francisco and Chicago continue to see more and more development, despite the fact that they're both already overdue for an earthquake on the same scale, or possibly far bigger than, the one that's hit Turkey and Syria. You can't simply move entire cities!
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However building still need to be placed where people live and work. It's simply impossible to evacuate everyone (together with the businesses that employ them and the farms that feed them) to those parts of Turkey where the risk of earthquakes is lower.
Similarly, US cities such as San Francisco and Chicago continue to see more and more development, despite the fact that they're both already overdue for an earthquake on the same scale, or possibly far bigger than, the one that's hit Turkey and Syria. You can't simply move entire cities!
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I doubt many high-rises are involved. Apartment blocks in Gaziantep are like Paris, seven storeys or so - though that's quite high enough to be disastrous if they come down.
I wonder if Gaziantep's gypsy girl survived.
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I wonder if Gaziantep's gypsy girl survived.
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