“The use of unreinforced masonry, and under-reinforced concrete in Turkey and Syria is going to produce horrible numbers of casualties.”
I was wondering if they had a lot of buildings made out of that kind of material. Very likely because some of their cities go back to antiquity. In SoCal “ancient buildings” go back maybe 100 years.
There have been lots of quakes in the area in the past. I wonder if the rebuilt buildings were better built or not? After awhile one would think all of the old sub-standard buildings would be gone.