Its pretty cold in that region and will get colder over the next few days. Its almost certain that many trapped people are losing their lives to hyperthermia.

Yea! You can’t tell this guy what to do! Let him get silicosis. Fuck you and your helpful tips!!

Friend of mine spent time in Turkey while serving with US Military decades ago. He said their construction methods at the time were horrible. They would pour a multi-floor wall as a single monolithic pour. This results in all the aggregate settling to the bottom of the form resulting in a horribly weak wall.

He said he wouldn’t let his men into any of the buildings over a few stories tall because of this.

But its an earthquake? I think everyone knows earthquakes are known to collapse buildings...

Great post, really interesting to see. These poor people :(

And what about search and rescue attempts? All those buildings are likely death traps for first responders. No words for how horrible this is.

It's a few people near who happened to be recording. They were not expecting a building to collapse in on itself or the would have been much further back https://twitter.com/nafisehkBBC/status/1622503557415985156

Can't wait for the basement idiots to start saying that it's fake because "jet fuel can't melt steel beams"

Me too :/

"In Turkey, strange behavior was observed in birds shortly before the earthquake. My opinion: Animals always know!"

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Thank you for this. It really helps to put the damage into perspective.
When a six-story building has been reduced to a two-story building ontop of some rubble.

For comparison.

Street view from the start of the video.

And street view from the end of the video.

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Last building seems least damaged, also looks like the most contemporarily engineered

Think about that praying you're doing. You're praying to a God, hoping that he makes everyone safe or lessens the pain, when that same God let this happen and could have prevented this (if he existed). I don't understand the logic.

Hope that place was empty

Guessing from the people recording from multiple angles, they were kinda expecting it to go at any moment meaning it was long evacuated (I hope).

unreal. f'ing trolls. i saw this video posted many times claiming it was from turkey's tsunami. i do not understand why anyone would do this.

Yeh that’s Japan

> even if all were out, they just lost their whole life.

This is what got me. A couple of months ago, there was a flood on my apartment’s floor. We only got about 2-3 inches of water that came in and made our living room float. I felt so overwhelmed by having to move everything upstairs and knowing that my storage closet was full of water too and not know what was slightly damaged or not.

I can’t even imagine a situation like this where you literally watch your house crumble. Now it’s not even “what was damaged?” But rather “what survived and can I even ever get it back?”

This is footage from the Japan tsunami. I recognize it from documentaries

Judging by the last few seconds, all of those buildings had open first floor storefronts that just pancaked down.

I can't help but think about the people that could have been in there. Also, even if all were out, they just lost their whole life. It's really horrible.

they’re all circling and recording an empty building. they obviously knew it was gonna happen