Earthquake!!

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Seismic design and upgrades have been HUGE THINGS here over the last couple decades. Most buildings will withstand fairly big quakes - well - their core structures will.. I've read that some expect that the glass exteriors of buildings will shatter and rain down on the streets leaving meters of broken glass everywhere. Apparently Vancouver is known as "The city of glass," for all it's glass faced buildings - having not spent significant time in other major cities I had never really thought about the fact that others cities' buildings aren't covered in glass like they are here. THAT's why the last place I wanna be during a major earthquake is downtown.

Chances are buildings in any European city are older than here, probably not built to the same modern design standards.. so, they come tumbling down easier when the ground shakes.

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Holy Shmoly, Sky News report just said possibly 60,000 dead ???

It seems like only yesterday The_Face_of_Boo that I was reading about the damage your office took in a blast.

The “official” count is still 3,800 dead…..but I’m sure this will rise.

It’s now “over 5,000” in Turkey and Syria.

Death toll over 33,000 now. :/

Shoddy construction to blame for a lot of the buildings that collapsed. Contractors & local government officials are all to blame. Inspections should have never been passed throughout the build process.

https://torontosun.com/news/world/turke ... pass-33000

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Over 40,000 confirmed deaths now.

It was heartwarming seeing stories of people successfully rescued, like this girl rescued after 7½ days. But it looks like they won't find many more survivors, and the UN expects the death toll to rise dramatically.

Meanwhile, Turkey have already started arresting people in connection with the buildings that collapsed.

Any reports of how many people are missing/unaccounted for? Just curious if the death toll is expected to skyrocket up over 100,000 people - 40k is a lot.. but 100k+, wow.

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^ I don't know. According to news reports, authorities in both Turkey and Syria have not yet reported the number of people missing. The death toll is apparently almost 44,000 right now.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 023-02-16/

Amazingly they're still finding people alive in the rubble, including a man who was rescued after 261 hours trapped in a collapsed building.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog ... ears-44000

^ I wonder if these late survivors had access to food/water by cheer luck.

I've prepared an emergency bag with snacks, water, and valuables.

Seems the focus is on the deaths in this earthquake, having been through at least three in my life of varying magnitudes. The people whom survive these things are genuinely affected , Almost like a version of PTSD ,
not just from building getting destroyed or loss of lives. But You can become affected by low frequency types of vibrations of all types. For a very long time . Then aftershocks . make you very uneasy. Each one you find people freezing in place to see if the shaking will get worse...And whether it will continue on...? Almost like becoming neurotic to unexpected vibrations . The survivors are surely going through their own version of hell.

My thoughts and prayers go out to those countries.

The ‘89 SF, luckily, was “only” a 6.9 on the Richter scale.