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People killed. in 1999, there was a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that 17,000 people were killed in, in northwest turkey, and after that the turks got smart about beefing up their building codes, but as were seeing from the pictures today those efforts did not go far enough quickly enough. turkish authorities say there are more than 2800 buildings that have been damaged. of course there are hundreds, maybe thousands of buildings that have been damaged on the syriaen side of the border. imagine how hi...

Panic. even my twitter messages, im looking every time and people sending me messages in the destroyed buildings. they are sending videos. yes, they are saying that we need help, please send -- send help, send an ambulance, but we cannot help. these buildings may be more than 3,000 buildings thats destroyed in turkey and its huge numbers and we are expecting that its getting. >> the number of buildings and the videos you are receiving, there has been a lot of talk about the 1999 earthquake and t...

>> its hard to sit from outside and comment. turkey has building codes, the degree to which theyre enforced, im not really an expert on that. also, as building codes improve, theres a problem of older structures that werent build to modern codes, so theres a lot to sort out. in general, we can engineer buildings to withstand even severe shaking. california where im from, weve had seismic provisions in the building codes going back 90 years after the 1933 long beach earthquake, so hopefully thats...

Continued earthquakes on the next section over. the aftershocks are diagnose off. the first day will have most of them. the second day will have half. third day, will have a third. its a one other time decay. it will be getting better. it will have to be taken into account in the search and rescue. >> youre saying the aftershocks will continue to be felt. i know this was the worst earthquake for turkey in some 80 years, but the country had strict building codes put into place some decades ago. c...

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