This is a fascinating, yet sickening read on why so many buildings collapsed during the Turkey quakes: TLDR: (1) Poor enforcement of building standards (incl. 'construction amnesties' offered by the government) (2) Little retrofitting in older buihttps://foxdeo.com/X85e.tnk

To give you an idea of the sheer scale of the Turkey earthquake, if we overlay the USGS ShakeMap onto the British Isles, the fault (red colours) would have ruptured from the Severn Estuary to the Humber Estuary. Much of England would have seen at lea