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on february 6th, 2023. most of us quakes devastated south eastern touch east has holly problem. that's monday, the one rescue lives and that's what kind of brown tabs to ginger for many people health arrived too late to dissolve the claim to more than 50000 lines . my name is nissan. of the con, i live in germany with my daughter and pop, nothing work as an actress. but i was born here in east on the city of my childhood will always be the place i call home for home is in grave danger. it's threatened by the same fate which devastates season has high. a major us creek dissolves to could strike eastern will any day.

the no, no. i'm going to stumble, visiting my best friend bush. she knows both how uncle and her aunt and have time to to my kind of a name and mama. here's what happened to them. i woke up in the morning the a friend had stayed the night and told me there was an earthquake and had tie. then not to me, then she goes to a message from her cousin in the what type of move in for the cost on this happened . it says i just escaped from the rubble to my house and my parents are still there and it comes and knocked. i hear my mother screaming line, we can't get out as homeland house viruses,

relatives lives. and i'm talk here. one of the cities west, ravaged by the quick at full 17 am local time on february 6th, 7.8, magnitude us quick struck the regions like many. her cousins immediately ran out into the street to help others. but then another powerful tremor started for $28.00 am. the parents were buried below debris. ready the siblings were powerless. tons of concrete separation at them from the parents. for 2 days they heard the mother's desperate cries until her voice fell clients they have to in deal with the reality that as temperatures dropped to 0, the parents had frozen to death. pinned down by the rubble already let him were filled with 3 score. we're scared. we're worried that we're devastated by the fact that we're so powerless to do anything and rages us on it. we can't express our sorrow. yeah,

no one can on board though. it's easy to talk when you're here or this, but those of us who are here can't truly understand what happened there in that. that's why i'm a shame to say i'm from head to i leave and that i'm hurting middleton. i'm a shame to say that i lost my relatives or something because i had the privilege to be here by monday to get to lock the foundation. i have known each other since the children but then we lived in place here and cut the k a district to the stumble. this is all childhood playground. i said us asked when the 1999 a quick hit. we come to was on a test that was in summer on the 17th of august, 1999, a severe, a quick struck south east of eastern bull,

resulting the death of maybe 20000 people. even though the center of the us quake was some 80 kilometers away from here, we felt the ground shake and our houses russell. my mother woke me up and we ran outside for the next few days. we come tail on this playground. today the danger of the big creek is ever present, and i'm increasingly concerned for my home city. and it's residents because of its eastern bowl, is the largest city in talking with an official population of about $60000000.00. it's bigger than either london or paris. and it's estimated that the real number of residents is close to 20000000. talk he's difficulty can not make situation is driving more people out of the country side and into the city. you stumble is the economic costs of the country. and us quick here matching the magnitude,

which is the one that struck se into a piece with spelled dissolves to for the whole country, meet the hustle and bustle of everyday life. you might think it's easy to lose sight of the danger. but that's not actually the case. many people here all deeply afraid. i talked to who's saying the own of a souvenir shop. he was a volunteer and how to i in the us creek so. so would be to them to be strong. it's of course, a difficult time for all of us are preparing for a major earthquake and new stumble. i mentioned, we're expecting it to know. i have a camper van in front of my house because of it and, and trying to spend more time outside the matrix the submission. so many people feel the way through saying, does they live under constant threats this most in vibrant cities in danger? so how imminent isn't us quite dissolved on what comes to cleansers would have have for eastern goal and it's residence

in the cache on the outskirts of the stumble i need with one of turkey's most well known geologist. professor nigi good for he is the scientist has been sounding the alone without intending us quakes including the one that struck south eastern turkey, which even when there was a small quake in february, 3rd, in the southeast, in osmani, in the media, asked me about that. and i said, forget about us manya. look at my rush. i'm concerned about, my gosh, that was 3 days before the huge click on february 6th. and i tied up a level of teaching citizen as a couple of the mazda of quake would strike the hatch. i region in south west kentucky it's difficult to even conceive of what a quake of this magnitude would do to eastern people. but just like the house all

the problems, you stumble sits a top tectonic reactive ground, meaning it's prone to us quakes to the cheer unlocked. if the motion, the new turkey is one of the most technically active areas of this planet. and that's why so many earthquakes occur in our country and most of the day it's due to the natural movements of the tectonic plates in our region. the. the dog funny is that ya need a bit of a defend letting the glass feel a jerky lines on the, on a totally and plates to the north is do you region plate? the radium plates and pushes from the sauce. you're moving the natalia and plates westward. these active plates boundaries are called fonts. default in the north and photos most of its energy from east to west. that's why there's been so many magnitude 7 earthquakes throughout the 20th century about moving west towards

stumble. and that's why the mom or a c off symbol would be the sights of the next earthquake. and it'd be a different machine at the funding. they get the 2 p ologist non g, g, a and many other experts. it's perfectly clear is dental and it's millions of residents, so facing a deadly dissolved stuff. the a mega us clay could strike at any time. and the likelihood of that happening increases with each posting. yeah. is there anything that east unable limits people can do? all these simply at the mercy of nature. i meet with the spanish scientist who is investigating this very question, size smaller,

just pepsi. see how much and this goes off. she's based up the german research center for geosciences g s. go ahead and post them with her projects. quite content. she's tackling how to best of detect signs of as quick as the full day hits. this is one of the most challenging questions, the policy, the new for assessing techniques, whether disclose the big data so that we are able to process the efficiency vast amounts of data at the same time. give us a new the new cases that maybe the police, the i'm not seen as gonzalez, searching for previously undetected passions and saw you make recordings

a company hubs the tiny island of simply all the to find out more around. you stumbled the tuckers dissolves, to enter emergency management to storage, the efforts and the g. s. the have built out a network of seismic stations on cecily, although we meet phyllis to buy cuddly old low from outside. he asked the depth of $300.00 me says that geo send records the tiniest move and so the crust is, is it? yes. and the here we have basically 3, the delegates, which basically received the date that that is coming from the instrument and compared it to digital. and then we did on speed the data with this modem that has internet with it and submitted it almost real time to our colleagues aside. the 3rd piece is that the one that's meant presidency in the car. and from there they send this to us almost in real time through the do you have said, what's them if the center of a major earthquake was to be low case of near the size make station east angle

could be willing to head of the 1st waves then that'd be 5 seconds to secure critical infrastructure. closing bridges, shutting down power plants, switching traffic lights to red, and the whole thing trains looks 5 seconds. it's not nearly enough time for the people who are inside buildings to get to safety. if a warning could be given earlier, it could save thousands of lives, the tier of the coast to be stumble and the g is building up as police see, i'm not seeing those guns, no explains. and the, with our, with to, with, with our research with, right, so that their mind, whether the fault is locked and it costs a higher potential for a very low to quick of money to 7 or more or to the, for the, is creeping. and that would mean that the 2 sides of default are slightly slighting . i'm not posting that much energy, and therefore they are as quick,

but they're shortly. so it's more so the extent of the danger eastern goal is facing depends on the behavior of the faults. and the mom, the receipt as the fold creeping or is it locked? i'm consigned to the tub and the also using seismic technology. that's the see i'm not, you know, go so and her colleagues are investigating these questions, some 200 kilometres. east of you stumble. estimate potshot in northern turkey, also lawyers on the newest, on a totally unfold zone. but here it's been proven that the tectonic plates all creeping. it's the end of march as an altitude of 1200 meters, it's cold from minus 5 to minus 10 degrees celsius. but the science makes stations desktop by outside m g s that's still need to be maintained. the geosciences have to swap out the batteries and storage devices $2.00 to $3.00 times

a year. this time it's the g f. that's time. aside from routine maintenance, the teen checks whether the station is detecting seismic signals and recording them correctly. the measuring devices function independently of the power thread. this one shows they can record the movements all again alone without interruption. the size make stations are installed along the no sound of totally and folds. sometimes they can be found and they are symmetry are protected in the community who o as is the case here, located in the back shed of a most with a permission of local officials. the, the less than ideal weather conditions have to date the team from the german research center for geosciences. but cc on her colleagues were hoping the weather would be mild and now the spring of 2 months away. that anxious to find out if the

station is still operational. yeah, so okay. yeah, it just looks like we have uh we have a biggest bike which um might be okay, so just to say, okay, so here we have a safe needs station on the back part of uh, mazda. but this is a very narrow room in which it is predicted, and the data is being collected, then there is the instrument and the date they send inside this box. where do we have the date done? okay, where we go from there did from and i looked through the data as well as i, there is a now we have connected the computer where we can visualize the data that is coming in and collect the data from the previous models. thing you see now here you have a nice click the

the region, the easement passes. one of the few places on this web tectonic plates a creeping cost. each of the scientists want to measure this movement as precisely as possible. that's why they're installing g p. s. to pull to tracking devices on both sides of the folds, which can register even the smallest of movements the most of the and then you look at the rock seriously. the green, these green rocks are so fun pines. uh you should be face these things to do to slow motion to creep. amazing. yeah. so he said the rocks that make this was the slow. yeah. these i agree are also, except on vines type on times and nothing means to make or something. hm. yeah,

said ben to, yeah, he did this. these are all kind of very low friction. mm. so the fault is continues on moving. yes. research has no that creeping plate movement impacts the risk of an us quick, but they don't yet know exactly how understanding more could help. lesser assess east handles the quick risk. that's why this research is so crucial. police, the emotion is, goes all and her colleagues wants to be able to identify the size, make signature of a creeping fault, then they can better evaluate the fault. and it is done though, this was the spot where both discovered that the tech tonic plates were creeping, pulsed each other. this rule was built in the 1950s.

every year, the movements of tectonic plates results and one half of the world moving about 2 centimeters aside. okay, so here it's the amount of displacement seems likely to buy. now it's been displaced by about some meter. this will, may seem somewhat unremarkable, but in terms of us quick research, it was a very special find. this type of fuzz scripts. okay, there's been very special, a very unique places in the work. and in particular, where we are here, these met, special segments of them are kind of totally on for is one of the best places to one of the staples behavior, the frequency visit. there's like a sample. yes. for those sciences here, dealing with the creep and active tectonics, this creepy or was discovered in 1969,

about 9 or 19 years after the 1st discovery of described on the inside address for your student kind of in europe. yes. is it your asian site? yes, so this is the big bundle. in fact. yeah. so we have to spend the right on the 1st of the boundary boundaries bound longer between to the north, the regime plate and here asian a normal days of say the phones are lock due to friction and accumulate the strain and release during the visit the far so it, so we basically spending on the width of the deadlines, so hopefully see, i'm not seeing those go so and yeah, didn't check you are standing right on the phone line here. the sound, the totally and then your region plates has been moving past each other for 8 to 12000000 years in these met pressure,

this movement is happening relatively continuously, but further to the west towards the sun, bullets a different story. there are many signs that the tech told it creates a look south of the city. more and more energy is building up here here of 2 year. history indicates that this energy is released at intervals of about $250.00. he is the last page of christ and eastern boulevard 15091766. so why is that mass? another big us quite because actually over to you, the scientists in germany are investigating just how great the threats the city is. the i visit the g s that impulse down the institute slip, etc. see, i'm not seeing those goals all works. this as well as quick research is happening at the highest level. it's here that i learn just how dynamic from us is below its

surface. the cross just constantly in motion. in many places the continents are being pushed further and further apart. liquid magma is continuously rising from the us, the interior pushing existing crusts to the side. in some areas, for example, themselves, america's west coast. these processes are also happening in the opposite direction . the are she, i'm a crust in the continental crust, actually pushed against each of the crust is broken up like puzzle pieces, into many different plates of the plate, boundaries, the rocks of, rub against each other, into look and detach. again, the g a says experimental rock to summation the part of the tree is led by a recruit. becky, the just as the system, his team use high pressure presses to recreate a natural process as you're getting, it's my end is a press one. now live in mind and how does we're moving to the press? now we'll take a hard rock like this and put it inside the press on this and then we'll load it

actually until it breaks. so now we'll go over here. i'll open the glass, paying for you, and if you could please place the stone in between these 2 stands out switching stairs to listen to the might in stanford. eric are back. he wants to show me how hall drop the hayes and the faults of his colleagues slowly increases the pressure of the press until it reaches 18 tons to the 2 blankets, lots of tiny pieces of chips. the sample would stood very high stress levels. we were now at about 220 mega pass scouts, which is a lot if you this, that one was a very solid, sampled ended, fractured into a lot of little pieces, either kind of took a certificate to fall from the gun. so if you let such samples slide past one another, like what happens deep down in the fears owners, then you produce

a lot of small eroded pieces. that's called couch and the fuel in the sub surface they rub past each other and you get jerking move and the by not funds. oh god, think of available molten rocks react totally different the to the movements of the cross. they behave more like this modeling clay it seems like to us quick research has borrowed an idea or 2 from the playground. in the analog modeling lab, i'm helping geologist eyes and cause our recess open experiments. it will help me visualize movements on the north, on a totally unfold straight. yes. for the law firm in the model, the assembly is at the bottom. i pushed to the left one. in other words, westwood, just like the end is hardly in place. i think we down the skinny to the if you

something there. so it meant to skate into now. and also he said to just go process in nature takes thousands to millions of years. we've done this, get to enough to administer all that. so we can understand the process behind the answers for process. that's the idea behind in there's some books, experiments that i know totally in place is represented on the right. the model reveals what's been happening on the newest, on the totally, and falls over the course of millions of years. although the movements is only from side to side, the sand is rising and falling at the boundary between the 2 plates. it's possible this type of movement is what forms the mom or a scene east dunbar. because of the interaction between small segments of folds. you can also see that some parts are subsiding, they're going down some parts of the coming, you know, 50. so it's not on the horizontal displacement. you have also some of course that's

coming up exactly coming up uplifting and some far as going down some siding. the model makes me acutely aware of how the plate movements will inevitably affect calculations because this movement is not going to stop expanding. the totally implants will continue to drift. westwood generation tremendous power. the as more and more pressure builds up near, you stumble. this impending stress is what drives scientists like pepsi c. i'm not seeing those goes off to keep gathering as much knowledge as possible. as long as molar just seizes every opportunity to learn more about the tectonic processors that she wants to go to the quick. soon and a half time the scientist travels from east on the

least, was to hold some takia, one of the cities most impacted by the creek in february, the along the road to the south, todd coastal solar, jesus sets up 10 cities, people who could not leave the creek, so it has been sheltering here on the journey pets. we see a matching those goals all makes use of every spend movement working on a, a per about the dangers facing east on both sides. stopped. is a field near on takia the she's able to witness 1st time to bruce will force and us create can on these tuckers john and this guy come and i'm shows hun olive grove near this to see it's the real world. oh, how look at this beautiful. this is of the

following, the quick, the us slow, urgent here. the fisher now spends a length of several 100 meters. this is supposedly the beginning of a new valley here, right? we are assisting to the fair so for a new valley, does this mean that there's going to be a continuation of the spec that it could be with, with further growth quakes? or is this like a natural incident that you'll slowly go even without the rest of the screen? so lance lights basically are everywhere where there is a mass of rock or debris sliding down here. and if you were not for the next house in sufficiently stables, no for sure. so i wouldn't be surprised if we see something like this. but have some of the spectacular dis, but something like this happening here. you're right. yeah. for the may. yeah,

she'll be good. thank you. right. hold on. i think you're doing yes. you know more or less this but, but you see all this is with. yeah, it's still good with. yeah, yeah. so this looks like a very solid rock. but the, in fact the, when, when we look dodge it, it just basically the same to rates. it's a very soft rock that breaks very easy. and that is also what, and this means that maybe it was that it was flowing through here. and that helps. the rock is really not this higher, the seed was, as we thought it was, it's not clear what exactly happened to ya. it's possible that was a large cavity even needs to all as grove. as a result of the quake, the water load, the rock ceiling may have slipped several meters to the side, then collapsed the and then

tacky. a professional fascination meets personal horrors. for the scientists. the quake almost completely destroyed the city. many houses crumbles, becoming deadly traps for their residence. the bishop truces. it's the collapse buildings that kill people, not the quake itself. and takia was famous for its beautiful, vibrant old cities. this a sound is destroyed. for example, this used to be the alley of a, of a most ok. these buildings might be inevitably lost, but now we wouldn't be facing, requested it or is the soul of the city going to return. and also we have seen in the way here that some of these buildings that's been stand, they are shows that there is no one living in them. and therefore the question is,

of course, many of them died as a consequence of the as quick. but those that survive, they likely left the some what else? and when these formulas we'd be willing to return here and that their life here again, or is the city so how come them to remain the lonely course to some extent. for a long time the he sent me the you called hell, but sync what is more buildings had withstood the quake residents had been going to

guest house and time. how was, how ties every every 3 sites the the all the people of the stuff in the distance for the same fate off to the 1999 us

creek building regulations were a titan, kentucky. so in theory, houses build off to that time should be us quick proof. but as the disaster in house i shows do, does that didn't adhere to the new regulations and up in canada. i keith book applies says the same holds true for eastern will focus planning, they deliver stumble, the cube for less money. we know, does half of all construction work and assemble is mostly on regulates? it's an unsupervised contract. it's very likely that building codes are not being followed here, which means, despite the regulations is done, both will most likely be in a very bad position. should an earthquake striking a little bit with the aside from the pool management of new construction, there are tens of thousands of residential buildings that were built the full 1999 buildings double collapse like houses of colds and enough quake just like what

happened to non takia, every house that crumbles trumps people underneath hundreds and thousands of families, neighbors, and friends. but every house that remain standing can sped lives. so how can we make building safer? this question leads me to the country in western europe with the highest incidence of us clicks it to me at the university of policy, i visit the research foundation. i can tell you one of its found is g on me. credit card visa says orange and split ames to reduce the risk of quakes post to human. to do this, the research of the test building in the original science guys on which means that we have somewhere hiding its high pressure. so we have to be careful let we go because the staff has some science that, you know, 5 french candidates would be the engine. anyway,

here the, the scientist probably shows off one of the world's largest us quick simulators. we can have a 5000 phones applied vertically dynamically. we can control the vertical load and displacement the tudor position, and we can move in arizona direction. whatever is inside there to test clearly shows ridges, buildings with structural components that break easily your own well connected. do not stand to tone. this is exactly how many houses in tokyo fills the flows on well attached to one another. so it's just being tested. you see that there is an actuated from there that could move the same busi election. and there is an x rays of air that the bush unfolding this direction. so this is like

a busy research has collect lots of data throughout their experiments to learn more about the risk of collapsing buildings. in these tests, the saw use of the models is crucial. we need to do a lot of free of testing to understand the response of structures. essentially, even if today we have uh, a good capacity of numerical analysis. we are continuously discovering that to improve or to have good and reliable medic, i'm all those. we need to feed them with good testing and testing cannot be scale to a small uh space you may a so so on. we should be as close as possible to really velocity or you know, size, the adamant to get the not fall from pa vi in milan, i get the opportunity to conduct and us quick experiments myself after stuff up ice text. if i'm not, she and this call excel developing shock absorbers that make buildings low as quick resistance. he shows me how the system was. the sense that in my hands controls the

plates in an us create. these plates move to dumping into buildings, vibrations, in our experiments. the shock absorbers on mound sit on the roof of the structure. the vibration stimulates enough quick, the shock absorber should reduce the movements of the show without the shock absorber. the liquid easily flushes over the rim of the gloss. ok, now we received yesterday and yes, click on these a on windows, so could zuba is activated. the liquid remains almost entirely, and the gloss is that still clips to those perform even better on the us. quick stimulates, and probably the building on the right with the sockets daughter's

installed on the roof is fairly damaged. the, theoretically the roost of any existing structure could be retro assisted with this shock absorber. system induced phone needing in naples the 1st all these are shock absorbers are in use. a 5 story apartment building was equipped with them off to renovation. the with this technology existing structures could become more us creek resistance. so could the always tack shock absorbers also protect older buildings than the stumble? so if an earthquake happens they, there's 40 percent of the buildings could be damaged. and i was wondering if

a technology likes to codes like favorite just, you know, for a while as far as far as a re repair everything. that technology is not amazing. is it easy to be installed on an existing building? because these compose volume like the materials that are falling through the assembly to directly on the construction site. mm hm. so you can imagine that this is a not to at a fly that went into stocks or you know, mossey way, but to you are not invasive. the shock absorbers could at least buy residence a little time to get to the safety of costs, installing them would be in the numerous undertaking, but it could save countless lives right now though there are no plans for anything like this. as we speak, tens of thousands of buildings in eastern beula, anything but us creek proof that leaves hundreds of thousands of people defenseless

against a quake. the that's why you stumble is trying to demolish thousands of on the safe buildings and replace them with a new us quick resistance structure. john and this kind of, um, tells me the transition is well underway. as like as you're telling me, there are $7000.00 active construction sites every month. that's unbelievable. with cost. yeah. uh the, the glass your fill. yes. as soon as a construction company is done with one site and they start on the next one, every month found there, a $7000.00 construction sites in this part of the city is which i didn't think about any fundamental construction is never ending. eventually they'll come here and these 3 small buildings will be torn down and replaced of the big building. and the effect is it's good business for these people this, but it's basically supported by the government and the community because these

buildings are not safe in an earthquake. and the new ones are supposed to be earthquake, say that's the, that's the goal of the end. the effect that the see, the so it sounds like eastern google always be under construction. will this construction boom, really health in the event of a disaster will do these new construction projects actually create new problems? that's what of and planned to look up las vegas. beyond them that the construction sector has been left to the markets, namely, the economic interests of clients and customers are seeing the effect of dots play out. now. in the last 20 to 25 years, more and more public spaces have disappeared. in other words, open spaces to which people could have fled in the event of a disaster. that land has been used for large construction projects. instead of being developed into parks or other outdoor areas, you can shop for experts,

calculate steps in the event of an us quake that would be less than one square meter of open space per resident. so where could people go with the houses were destroyed after the quake, the in comparison? the playground, when my neighbors, the night took refuge during the 1999 us quick feels almost like a luxury resorts. my friend bothers, tells me that people in hotel i say it's not the dad who suffer from an us quake. it's the survivors. the ones who watch the friends and relatives died. the other ones who watched and ways just help fails to arrive or arise too late. well know people say you wanted me to us creek strikes eastern the, the we meet the residents in front of the

old apartment building. that's what this is. all of these buildings will be demolished into 3 months because she can speak to them and because she used to live in germany and the buildings will be torn down because they're not as quick say. the image is always a woman, doesn't know yet where she lives. the it was so long ago that i knew very little about the danger us quite exposed to the city where i was born and raised at least the martinez council. and the other scientists have showed me that they are working on ways to help with some dissolved stuff. but it may already be too late to protect the people, at least on the i am very worried is the be quite comes. what will remain of my beloved 16,

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