It Pancaking News Today

Financial and social disaster. A region already destabilised by war, where another humanitarian crisis is unfolding. The worst Case Scenario is that people who werent killed by the earthquake are killed by the failure to get aid to them after the earthquake. Across turkey and syria, families were woken by a massive earthquake. This ten storey Apartment Block collapsed, the rubble trapping residents. My colleague, selin gerit, went to meet a woman who lived on the third floor. Dilek� s father a...

financial and social disaster. a region already destabilised by war, where another humanitarian crisis is unfolding. the worst—case scenario is that people who werent killed by the earthquake are killed by the failure to get aid to them after the earthquake. across turkey and syria, families were woken by a massive earthquake. this ten—storey apartment block collapsed, the rubble trapping residents. my colleague, selin gerit, went to meet a woman who lived on the third floor. dilek...

Across the region, many buildings suffered total colla pse. the floors stacking up, one on top of another. engineers call it pancaking. we have seen a lot of pancaking in the area. that actually really is a term that they use to describe very brittle and sudden failure of a reinforced concrete multi—storey or reinforced concrete building, and we have seen quite a lot of that. turkey is one of the worlds most active earthquake zones. the last major quake hit in 1999 near the northwestern city o...

...Earthquake - Panorama. More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria. Panorama asks if more could...