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

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Mosalam 2003.