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Both, Either you do not build in earthquake area at all which is difficult since all of Turkiye is almost earthquake zone. But you can never predict where the earth will rip apart, that part is just luck

A good constructed house / flat will survive even strong quakes unless of course it has the bad luck to be right on the fault line that rips open. There are 30m wide rips due in some areas, no matter how strong the building is there no any building will survive

Most of the collapsed buildings did not have a sufficient foundation. Here we see again neglect, no control. They build 5-6 store apartments' with no foundation. Mostly you see two types of collapsed buildings either buildings that collapse in one piece: no foundation or buildings that...

It starts with contol! If you don't control bakeries, restaurant, food chains, than do not be surprised you have unhygienic situations If you don't control cars parked on places where cars may not park, no one will respect traffic rules If you don't control tax payment, people will do...

Install German politicians in Turkiye, it will become like Germany in no time. Politicians are not chosen by people, take CHP for instance, KK lost more than 15 elections in a row, people don't want him but he is still at the head of CHP. Same with MHP and many other parties. Which politician...

Obedience you get when rules are enforced. Take Turkiye for instance every 5 years when there are elections there is announced a general pardon for illegal constructions, criminals get pardon and release from prisons. And than we expect obedience, yeah right! When you have a country run by...

The core case is that house one and two have to be both according to construction rules save. If it is not it is not the people buying but the state that does not do the proper controls. You cannot build like they do in Turkiye in Japan, they will arrest the constructor and tare down the...

In 1947 Turkiye had zero power, there would have been no way to hold on to the oil rich lands, we could not even keep Musul.

What do you expect? It is said at the day of the earthquake the government had planned to enact a new "imar affi" (illegal construction pardoning). But with the earthquake this is postponed. I will bet with you that despite this earthquake they will still do this pardoning quietly when this...

Do village guards know how to handle a wounded with neck, head or spine injuries? Rescuing is not just pulling someone out of the rubble like an ape, you rescue someone with tact and knowledge how to

Turkiye is big enough to house everyone in single store houses, but lacks the regulations and people who can afford it

Turkiye is cursed with idiots, idiot politicians, idiot majors, idiot constructors, idiot people who accept those crap housings without letting their houses checked by independent instances to sue to constructors Too many idiots

About the quality of the buildings I am afraid nothing will change. I have a house in Manisa in a site (group of housings) and proposed to let the buildings (4 flats of 3 high in the site, 90 housings in total) examine by an independent instance, at first many agreed but than when it came to...

German rescue team is leaving Turkiye because of shootings between police and looters. These looters should be hanged, damn idiots do not have respect for the lives, properties and security of others

Not all cables are above ground, there are underground cables too. Flashes stem mostly by shortcut explosions, be it from trafo's or cables above and under the ground

We need to do some self criticizing too. AKP may not be responsible for the bad quality of all buildings, but what is the excuse for buildings younger than 10 years? Where are the regulations, inspections? There is a grave amount of neglect, this should be tackled firstly. All of us bare...

Most likely power cable short circuiting

The ironic sarcasm of the story is that this quake is a pre-warning of the earthquake for Istanbul. The earthquake train is approaching very fast, we know it already for many years but is there any preparation? Nada!

Well soon the blame games will start, people will ask who are the responsible. Constructors will be blamed, state will be blamed, government will be blamed etc. etc. But we have to realize that these things are accumulations of hundreds of years. Where in Turkiye do we have city planning...

there are engineering teams (Istihkam) with gear, excavators etc. etc.. Those teams could have been used