Dear friend,
It's not nature that's scary. What is scary is the corrupted economic/political system that caused the buildings to be demolished in the earthquake, in which all municipalities, political parties, mafia, construction companies, inspection firms and even ordinary people are in.
The problem isnt in the political system but in the
people themselves
The govt main role is to introduce the laws and make sure that it is implemented. As for the law, the govt already has a law similar to that of the US since more than 8 years ago indicating that all buildings must be earthquake resistant and inspected by third parties which is being implemented
The main problem is the people cutting corners by bribing the third party inspectors
The construction companies are cutting corners by using shitty materials
The municiplaities arent solving the main problem of corruption since they are benefitting from it. Take Hatay as an exqmple, the city has been razed to the ground; most of the buildings that were destroyed were old and even the new buildings funded by the CHP were brought to the ground (such as that high class compound that I forgot its name). Even in the affected AKP municipalities, similar things happend albeit to a lesser degree
The only buildings that were literally unharmed were those that were completely funded by the govt such as TOKI buildings which are now being attacked by Kilicdaroglu (but that is for another discussion)
Sadly, the only change to such problems are in the people themselves. The govt vant do anything when most of the people are corrupt..... like will the govt jail all of the populations of Eastern Turkey along with the construction companies? Ofcourse not! The people need to learn the hard way and now those in Eastern Turkey learned the lesson very well
I just hope those in Western Turkey learned as well since it seems that this isnt the case