Earthquake in Turkey Kills Hundreds

She will have a good home. :love:

Thousands have offered to adopt a newborn girl whose mother gave birth under the rubble of a five-story collapsed apartment building in Syria following Monday's earthquake.

Baby Aya — meaning miracle in Arabic — was found buried under concrete more than 10 hours after the quake struck with her umbilical cord still connected to her deceased mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya. Her father and all four of her siblings also died after the devastating earthquake hit the northwest Syrian town of Jindayris, next to the Turkish border.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...an-baby-born-earthquake-adoption/11227621002/
 

mrstime said:
The death toll is now 33,000. Just horrendous!
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they say they've barely scratched the surface.. of fidning bodies, and they're being inhibited by warring Factions, and bad weather, and yet after almost a week they're still finding people alive.. How terribly heartbreaking to think there's people lying under all of that , alive, and may never get found 😣☹️
 

Turkish politicians are now going after building construction persons though local politicians and their inspectors themselves are equally to blame. Same societal issue in all countries where cutting corners on building code standards is an easy way to increase short term short sighted profits.

Here in earthquake prone California in older urban areas, there are myriad older buildings built before modern science construction codes were created, especially multistory residential buildings. In our region, areas of San Francisco and Oakland will be particularly devastating. Although most such buildings are already known to be unsafe, because they are filled with poor folks that have no where else affordable to live, little has been done beyond warnings. Any repair virtually amounts to tearing down such structures, building anew with much more expensive housing, leaving them out in the streets. So the status quo is not likely to change.

Not IF but WHEN the next large quake occurs in our state, there will be like scenes of collapsed buildings with many dead. To be buried alive with painful injuries, cold, thirsty, hungry, unable to move in some dark pile of rubble, hoping for eventual rescue, over hours and days, has to be one of the worst ways to pass into eternity.
 
I saw today that the Turks are in a better situation (relatively speaking) because the Turkish government is intervening and helping. The Syrians refugees who had fled war and oppression have little if no support from the Syrian government. Most of the news is coming from Turkey, but what the Syrians are going through is even more devastating.
 
David777 said:
Turkish politicians are now going after building construction persons though local politicians and their inspectors themselves are equally to blame. Same societal issue in all countries where cutting corners on building code standards is an easy way to increase short term short sighted profits.

Here in earthquake prone California in older urban areas, there are myriad older buildings built before modern science construction codes were created, especially multistory residential buildings. In our region, areas of San Francisco and Oakland will be particularly devastating. Although most such buildings are already known to be unsafe, because they are filled with poor folks that have no where else affordable to live, little has been done beyond warnings. Any repair virtually amounts to tearing down such structures, building anew with much more expensive housing, leaving them out in the streets. So the status quo is not likely to change.

Not IF but WHEN the next large quake occurs in our state, there will be like scenes of collapsed buildings with many dead. To be buried alive with painful injuries, cold, thirsty, hungry, unable to move in some dark pile of rubble, hoping for eventual rescue, over hours and days, has to be one of the worst ways to pass into eternity.
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Yes, that is a very scary thought!
 
David777 said:
Turkish politicians are now going after building construction persons though local politicians and their inspectors themselves are equally to blame. Same societal issue in all countries where cutting corners on building code standards is an easy way to increase short term short sighted profits.

Here in earthquake prone California in older urban areas, there are myriad older buildings built before modern science construction codes were created, especially multistory residential buildings. In our region, areas of San Francisco and Oakland will be particularly devastating. Although most such buildings are already known to be unsafe, because they are filled with poor folks that have no where else affordable to live, little has been done beyond warnings. Any repair virtually amounts to tearing down such structures, building anew with much more expensive housing, leaving them out in the streets. So the status quo is not likely to change.

Not IF but WHEN the next large quake occurs in our state, there will be like scenes of collapsed buildings with many dead. To be buried alive with painful injuries, cold, thirsty, hungry, unable to move in some dark pile of rubble, hoping for eventual rescue, over hours and days, has to be one of the worst ways to pass into eternity.
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Turkish gov't has ordered the arrest of 131 construction workers, including designers and engineers. I'm not sure if the 131 includes city inspectors.

I think I just heard 33,000 dead
 
Victoria said:
She will have a good home. :love:

Thousands have offered to adopt a newborn girl whose mother gave birth under the rubble of a five-story collapsed apartment building in Syria following Monday's earthquake.

Baby Aya — meaning miracle in Arabic — was found buried under concrete more than 10 hours after the quake struck with her umbilical cord still connected to her deceased mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya. Her father and all four of her siblings also died after the devastating earthquake hit the northwest Syrian town of Jindayris, next to the Turkish border.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...an-baby-born-earthquake-adoption/11227621002/
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Bless her little heart. I hope she does find a wonderful home that she can be safe in.

Re OP: Last I saw, the death toll has surpassed 41,000. It is truly a miracle that as of yesterday, they were still rescuing survivors.
 

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