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Originally Posted by Table 5
Yikes. I really hope there's never an earthquake of this magnitude in Istanbul if we're talking similar lax building standards there too. It's an absolutely massive city in population (15 million) and land area, and I remember even far-flung outer neighborhoods being densely packed with the similar style of buildings we see in the news today. The potential for devastation there is on a completely different level.
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Istanbul is a ticking timebomb and likely all the construction since then will need to be re-examined or rebuilt at the cost of billions of dollars, which Turkey can't really afford. Erdogan is currently rounding up all the developers to scapegoat, despite him masterminding all this. He'll also be the one impeding any rebuild efforts (because he doesn't want involvement highlighted). Electorates should have zero tolerance for corruption when it is small, it ends up getting people killed.