How do you even come back from something like this. All of these buildings probably need to be demolished and rebuilt right?

Just awful. Freezing temperatures, another major earthquake, and countless aftershocks. A true nightmare.

Yeah, relocation is the only solution as of now because electricity and running clean water are most likely gone as well.

Judging by the last few seconds, all of those buildings had open first floor storefronts that just pancaked down.

Last building seems least damaged, also looks like the most contemporarily engineered

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For comparison.

Street view from the start of the video.

And street view from the end of the video.

Thank you for this. It really helps to put the damage into perspective.
When a six-story building has been reduced to a two-story building ontop of some rubble.

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And what about search and rescue attempts? All those buildings are likely death traps for first responders. No words for how horrible this is.

Great post, really interesting to see. These poor people :(

Its pretty cold in that region and will get colder over the next few days. Its almost certain that many trapped people are losing their lives to hyperthermia.

Remember these images when you feel like bitching about US construction permits and inspections.

Also, cost of CA real estate include a lot of requirements so this doesn't happen to our properties.

Also it's cold af there right now, generators and designated shelters is 1st step.

The high number of deaths is related to the construction methods of buildings in their region. I do believe there is zero emphasis to build for resistance.

What the hell is going on with Reddit? I've seen 5 posts this morning about the earthquake and all tweets/video posts have been deleted.

Fiscal stimulus QE of course

Rebuild with better building codes. It will be more expensive, but that city was located where it was for a reason. It will get rebuilt.

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Nature is fucking crazy.

Thoughts going out to our brothers, sisters, and others overseas.

is this due to the building quality there or the severity of the earthquake?

Yes.

7.8 is MASSIVE

Bad building codes lead to weak buildings

Maybe they can rebuild with the environment in mind. More trees, rain water collection, stronger more  resilient materials. Humanity Will always be struck with disasters. He’s how we respond and react that will determine our future

Reddit mods being Reddit mods.

Damn.

Just wait until it happens in US.

Not much you can really do.

I’d rather not, I’m in LA and it scares the shit out of me

Wow all of those shops on the bottom floor are just gone from the building collapsing down on top of them.

Some of the buildings have holes in their walls in the latter street view when you turn around. Looks like some of the structures were dilapidated to begin with

Probably both. Concrete and other very rigid structures are more likely to break. Wood buildings sway and are known to survive earthquakes. Source: we had a big one in AK a few years back and a friend was our town building inspector. He said my home was likely safer than a newer concrete construction because it was wood.

Kahramanmaraş has a a large population of refugees, there were more than 17,000 at one refugee centre. These people were living on the knife edge every day, I cannot imagine what this catastrophe will do to them...

For all of the current regime's considerable flaws, Turkey hosts the most refugees in the world, at last count they had 3.7 million such people. That level of generosity should be commended, and I'm happy to see so many nations and individuals racing to help however they can.

But neither Syria nor Turkey is in a position to absorb this catastrophe - nearly one in five people in Turkey were malnourished prior to this event, for example.

If you are able, please consider donating to the International Rescue Committee or a similar charity.

anything related to Turkiye is downvoted, doesn't matter if its a natural disaster that made 10 million people homeless.