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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

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It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. A view on how to mitigate earthquake damages in Turkey from a civil engineering perspective. Mosalam 2003. It is these that collapse.