# Earthquake in Turkey 10-23-11

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-turkey-10-23-11/600537 "2011-10-23T14:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-turkey-10-23-11/600537/1 "2011-10-23T14:25:15Z")

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Someone has already uploaded a video to You Tube [http://youtu.be/9qWUTwerIfY](http://youtu.be/9qWUTwerIfY)

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> (10-23) 06:22 PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) –
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> The deputy prime minister says the earthquake in eastern Turkey has collapsed around 45 buildings.
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> Besir Atalay says the quake collapsed some 25-30 buildings as well as a dormitory in the eastern town of Ercis in Van province. He says 10 buildings fell in the city of Van.
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> The magnitude-7.2 quake struck Van province on Sunday.
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> Read more: [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/10/23/international/i040048D08.DTL#ixzz1bcBwVrid](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/10/23/international/i040048D08.DTL#ixzz1bcBwVrid)

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-turkey-10-23-11/600537/2 "2011-10-23T14:33:00Z")

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We’re getting reports of over 1,000 dead. That’s mind-boggling.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-turkey-10-23-11/600537/3 "2011-10-23T14:34:32Z")

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I read on USA Today that it was only 12 miles deep, which shallow. More destructive when it’s shallow, I read. Terrible. ☹

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**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-turkey-10-23-11/600537/4 "2011-10-23T21:21:20Z")

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Building construction in most of southeastern Turkey (where I was in the late 80’s) was scary. They mixed concrete one wheelbarrow full at a time-for a multi-story building. Where construction sites use two by 4’s fastened together to support the concrete floors, they were using tree limbs. I’m not surprised that a lot of buildings fell down. In some of the smaller towns, the single family homes looked like mud huts. In one public bathroom, I straddled a concrete trough that had a local stream running through it! At that time, the further east you went in Turkey, the more primitive life became. Northwestern Turkey was more like Europe.