[iReallyShouldnt]

Twitter has been restricted.

There are numerous tv/news agencies that are reporting on the streets, and cutting people short when they state that the government hasn't brought out help while the media boasts how great the government is doing.

Over 5000 buildings completely demolished. The death toll is severely underreported.

The main earthquake apparently hit at around 4:17am local time, and the one at around noon devestated whatever was standing after the deadly night.

[Kinky_John]

Some of the people's reactions on those videos were heartbreaking, imagine knowing your family, loved ones or friends were in those buildings then just seeing them collapse like that knowing that if they weren't killed instantly then they would probably die slowly as rescue would be unlikely given the amount of rubble to dig through

[kellyhound]

Death toll crosses 21,000; Turkey sees 1,509 aftershocks so far.

Turkey has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes while allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, experts say.

The lax enforcement, which experts in geology and engineering have long warned about, is gaining renewed scrutiny in the aftermath of this week's devastating earthquakes, which flattened thousands of buildings and killed more than 20,000 people across Turkey and Syria.

“This is a disaster caused by shoddy construction, not by an earthquake,” said David Alexander, a professor of emergency planning at University College London.

It is common knowledge that many buildings in the areas pummeled by this week’s two massive earthquakes were built with inferior materials and methods, and often did not comply with government standards, said Eyup Muhcu, president of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey.

He said that includes many old buildings, but also apartments erected in recent years — nearly two decades after the country brought its building codes up to modern standards. “The building stock in the area was weak and not sturdy, despite the reality of earthquakes,” Muhcu said.

The problem was largely ignored, experts said, because addressing it would be expensive, unpopular and restrain a key engine of the country's economic growth.

[Vixənn]

death toll is now at 22,300.

[AEK_ATHENS_GR]

Sending love and prayers from Greece.

[kellyhound]

Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 24,000.

[Vixənn]

i just read an article that says that the Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll is likely to surpass 56,000, according to the UN emergency aid chief.

it's at 36,000 now.

[kellyhound]

An 18-year-old named Muhammed Cafer was rescued from the rubble of a building in southern Turkey on Tuesday, the third rescue of the morning some 198 hours after last week's devastating earthquake.

[knoutfit]

Another CCTV of the shock moment

[kellyhound]

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/11565...uilding-safety