Sunday, October 23, 2011

Earthquakes

There was a relatively large - 7.2/7.3 earthquake in Turkey (my home country) today (that is Sunday). I was looking at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ and was surprised that so many earthquakes are happening around the world all the time. Of course very few are big ones, but still...

I also learned today, while listening to an expert on Turkey's NTV channel, that many towns are located right on top of the fault line because those places contain fertile soil and historically they were preferred by early settlers.

It seems Turkey will need a lot of time to either move these towns or rebuild buildings to be more resilient to earthquakes.

My best wishes go to those who have suffered from the earthquake.

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