Turkey quake: Weak buildings, shallow shock caused deaths
09 February 2023 |
1:21 pm
The instability of old buildings was responsible for much of the wreckage in Monday’s earthquake along the Turkey-Syria border. But the earthquake was also abnormally strong for its magnitude.
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