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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

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An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Mosalam 2003.