Why was the Turkey-Syria earthquake so bad?
The Briefing Room
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Building Design in Turkey - The Impact of the Turbulence
Dila Diala is professor of structural engineering and co-director of the Earthquake and People Interaction Center at UCL. A high number of the collapsed buildings looked have been built very recently. The rapidity with which the concrete industry was building in Turkey may have lent itself partially to the scale of this disaster, she says.
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