Hello i live in the, in a couple months or 6, this ones, the smallest her moms, the vice to claim the name on february 6th, 2023 massive us quakes devastated south eastern touch east has holly problem. Huffman this case, i just have one rescue lives and thats a turnaround. Has to change on the list. 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 on top. 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. But that home is in grave danger. Its threatened by the same fate which devastating disease in his high and major us creek dissolves to could strike eastern bull any day. The no, no, ive been this done. Do visiting my best friend bush. She knows both how long and holmes and have time to say to my kind of a name and mama, heres 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 message from her cousin and the what type of proof in for the cost on this happened. It says i just escaped from the rubble of my house and my parents a stupor and it comes and knocked. I hear my mother screaming line. We cant get out as homeland house viruses, relatives live. And im talk, you know, one of the cities west ravaged by the quick at full 17 am local time on february 6th. The 7. 8, magnitude us quakes dropped 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 had their mothers 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, he led him. But you were filled with 3 score. Were scared. Were worried that were devastated was the fact that were so powerless to do anything and rages us on it. We cant express our sorrow. Yeah, no one can on board though. Its easy to talk when youre here or this, but those of us who are here cant truly understand what happened there in that. Thats why im a shame to say im from how to i leave and that im hurting ableton. Im a shame to say that i lost my relatives or because i had the privilege to be here by monday to get to lock the foundation. I have known each other since the children the sites. Then we lived in place here in country k, a district of you stumble. This is our childhood playground, the best fit us at the 1999 as quick hits we comes here with our neighbors. That was in the summer, on the 17th of august 1999, a severe, a quick struck south east of east dunbar, resulting in 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 im increasingly concerned for my home city. And its residents, because of its eastern bowl, is the largest city in talking with an official population of about 60000000. 00. Its bigger than either london or paris. And its estimated that the real number of residents is close to to 20000000 to hes difficulty cannot make situation is driving more people out of the country side and into the system. Hes done well, is the Economic Cost of the country. And us quick ha, matching the magnitude, which is the one that struck South Eastern Turkey was spelled as last to for the whole country. I missed the hustle and bustle of everyday life. You might think its easy to lose sight of the danger. But thats not actually the case. Many people here all deeply afraid. I talked to whos saying the own of a souvenir shop. He was a volunteer and had tie in the us creek so. So would it be to them to be sure its of course, a difficult time. All of us are preparing for a major earthquake in december. I mentioned were expecting it to not have a camper van in front of my house because of it and, and trying to spend more time outside in nature, excuse me. So soon, many people feel the way through saying does they live under constant threats . This mold and vibrant city is in danger. So how immune and isnt us quite dissolved . And what consequences would it have for eastern goal and its residents in the cafe on the outskirts of eastern bowl i meet with one of turkeys most well known geologist. Professor nigi good for he is the scientist has been sounding the alarm, a 1000 pending us quakes, including the one that struck South Eastern Turkey, which even when there was a small quake in february 3rd, in the se, in osmani, in the media asked me about that. And i said, forget about us, man. Yeah, look at my rush. Im concerned about, my gosh, that was 3 days before the huge click on february 6th. And i tell you that the level of teaching students just an eligible that a master of quake would strike the how to i region in south western talking. Its difficult to even conceive of what a quake of this magnitude were due to eastern but just like the how to all the problems, you stumble sits the top tectonic lea, active ground, meaning its 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 thats why so many earthquakes occur in our country. And most of the day its due to the natural movements of the tectonic plates and our region the, the following year. That is the only it visible on the depth and letting the glass feel the tricky lines on the, on a totally relate to the north is do you region plates, the radium plates and pushes from the sauce, moving the on a totally and plates westward. These active plates boundaries are called fonts default and the north and follows most of its energy from east to west. Thats why theres been so many magnitude 7 earthquakes throughout the 20th century about moving west towards stumble. And thats why the mom or c off assemble would be the site of the next earthquake. And itd be the machine had the funding. They get to be all the just non g, g, a, and many other experts. Its perfectly clear, east dumble and its millions of residents are facing a deadly disaster. The a mega us clay could strike at any time. And the likelihood of it happening increases with each posting. Yeah. Is there anything that eastern little limits people can do . All these simply at the mercy of nature. I meet with a spanish scientist who is investigating this very question sized smaller just pepsi. See im asking us goes all the shes based on the job and Research Center for geosciences. G. S that in pumps done with her projects. Quite content shes tackling how to best to detect signs of as quick before they hit the at the moment. This is one of the most challenging questions the new for assessing techniques, whether disclose the big data so that we are able to process efficiency vast amounts of data at the same time. Give us a new the new cases that maybe before were not the police the im not seen is gonzalez searching for previously undetected passions. And seismic recordings i accompany her to the tiny island of simply all the to find out more around, you stumbled. The tuck has dissolves to enter Emergency Management tools, storage the efforts, and the g. S. The have built out a network of seismic stations on cecily. Although we meet phyllis to buy country old low from outside. He asked the depth of 300 me says that you send records the tiniest move and sophia crossed is, is it . Yes. And the here we have basically 3 data logos which basically receives the data 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 on most real time to our colleagues aside. The 3rd piece does have someone attend presidency in on kyra. And from there they send this to us almost in real time through the dmv said books them if the center of a major earthquake was to be location near the size make station eastern bull could be willing to ahead of the 1st waves. Then thatd be 5 seconds to secure critical infrastructure. Closing bridges, shutting down power plants, switching traffic lights to red and halting trains. Books 5 seconds. Its 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. Here off the coast of the stumble and the g is building up as police see, im not seeing those guns all explains. And the, with our, with to, with, with our research with the right to the mind, whether the fault is locked and it costs a higher to potential for a very low to quick of monday through 7 or more or the for the is creeping. And that would mean that the 2 sides of the falls are slightly slighting. Im not posting that much energy and therefore they are as quick, but they show a little bit smaller. So the extent of the danger, eastern goal is facing depends on the behavior of the fault. And the mom, the receipt is the fold creeping or is it locked and consigned to the tub and the also using seismic technology. Thats the see. Im not you know, go so and her colleagues are investigating these questions, some 200 kilometers east of you stumble. Easement potshot in northern turkey, also lawyers on the newest, on the attorney and faults and those here, its been proven that the tectonic plates all creeping. Its the end of march as an altitude of 1200 meters. Its cold from minus 5 to minus 10 degrees celsius. But the size make station setup by alpha m g s that still need to be maintained. The geosciences have to swap out the batteries in storage devices 2. 00 to 3. 00 times a year. This time its the g f, thats 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 to read this and shows they can record the movements over here alone without interruption. The size make stations are installed along the north. Honda totally in folds, sometimes they can be found in the are symmetry, protected in the Community Whole as was the case here, located in the back shed of a most with the permission of local officials the, the less than ideal weather conditions have to date the team from the job and Research Center for geosciences. Pub 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 yeah, it looks like we have uh we have a big spike which um might be okay, so just to say, okay, so here we have a saves me station on the 1st of a month. But this is a very narrow uh, 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 data . Okay, where we come back from and i look through the data as well as there are, there is a now we have connected to a computer where we can visualize the data that is coming in and collect the data from the previous models. A thing you see now here you have a nice click the the region, the easement passes. One of the few places on us where tectonic plates are creeping cost. Each of the scientists want to measure this movement as precisely as possible. Thats why theyre installing g p. S to pull to tracking devices on both sides of the folds, which can register even the smallest of movements. Motion the and when you look at the rock seriously, the green, these green rocks are southern pines. Uh if i said with a steve 60, due to slow motion to creep. Amazing. Yeah. Uh, so you said the rocks that make disclose the slow. Yeah. These uh, green roads are separate vines type on times and nothing needs to make or something. Mm. Yeah. So ive been to, yeah, this is, these are all kind of very low friction. Hm. So the fault is continues ongoing. Yes. Research as know that creeping Plate Movement impacts the risk of a nice quick but they dont yet know exactly how understanding more could help. Lesser recess is done. Those, those quick risk. Thats why this research is so crucial. Police, the motion is goes all and her colleagues wants to be able to identify the size, make signature of a creeping folds, then they can better evaluate the folds near eastern will the this was the spot where both discovered that the tech tony, its wood creeping, pulsed each other this rule was built in the 1950s every year, the movements of tech, tonic plates results and one half of the world moving about 2 centimeters to the side. Okay, so here its the amount of displacement seems might be by now its been displaced probably about some meter. This will, may seem somewhat unremarkable. But in terms of us creek research, it was a very special find. This type of flood script. Ok, theres been very special, a very unique places in the work. And in particular, where we are here based on the special segments of the nurse, and that the, and for is one of the best, the places, the, one of the staples behavior, the for the visit. Theres like a sample. Yes. Slow sciences here dealing with the creep and octave tectonics. This creepy or was discovered in 1969, about 919 years after the 1st discovery of describe them on a, on site address for your student, kind of in europe. Is it you are asian saw . Yes, so this is the big bundled in fact, yeah. So we have to spend the right amount of both of the boundary boundaries bound longer between to the north region plate. And here the asian gate normally is to say the phones are locked due to friction and accumulate this the tray and leaves during the visit efforts. So its, so were basically spending on the width of the deadlines. So thats the see i martinez, council and yeah jim chuck you are standing right on the phone line here. The stomach only. And then your rage and plates has been moving past each other for 8 to 12000000 years in the past. Of this movement is happening relatively continuously. Look further to the west, towards the stumble. Its a different story. There are many signs that protect on the plate, so look south of the city. More and more energy is building up here a year after year. History indicates that this energy is released at intervals of about 250 years. The last page of crates to nissan boulevard and 50 no 9 and 1766. So if i dont math 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 upset in post on the institute slip i p. C. Im not seeing those guns all works. This is what a Quick Research is happening at the highest level. Its here that i learn just how dynamic front of us is below its surface. The crust is 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 cross to the side. And some areas, for example, themselves, americas west coast. These processes also happening in the opposite direction. That he or she on the cross than the continental crust actually pushed against each of the crust is broken up like puzzle pieces, into many different plates. As a plate boundaries the rocks of rub against each other, into locks and detach. Again, the g a says experimental rock to summation the part of the tree is led by a recruit. Becky, the geophysicist in his team use High Pressure presses to recreate us natural processes. Youre getting, its my and these are press one i live in mind and how does we moving to the press . Now well take a hard rock like this and put it inside the press on business, and then well load it actually only until the breaks. So now well go over here, ill open the glass, paying for you, and if you could please place the stone in between these 2 stands out switching, spelled switching gears a might in stanford. Eric are back. He wants to show me how hall dropped behaves in the folds of his colleague slowly increases the pressure of the press until it reaches 18 tons, the blanket, lots of tiny pieces of chips. The sample would stood very high stress levels. We were now at about 220. 00 mega pass scouts, which is a lot of field is that one was a very solid sample to ended, fractured into a lot of little pieces, either kind of took a sticker to fall from the gum. So if you let such samples slide past one another shows like what happens deep down in a few years old. This then you produce a lot of small who wrote it piece is thats called go to to you and a few in class in the sub surface they rub past each other and you get jerking move. I mean, i know for bias not tons of will got taken to the molten rock. 3 are totally different. The to the movements of the cross. They behave more like this modeling clay. It seems like the us Quick Research is borrowed in id o 2 from the playground in the modeling lab. Im helping geologist eyes on cause our re set up and experiments. It will help me visualize movements on the north, on a totally and fold straight. Yes. And for the last time in the model, the assembly is at the bottom. I pushed to the left one. In other words, westwood, just like the totally in places. And they could be down the skinny to the if you something there. So it me to skate into now. And also he said to just go process in nature takes thousands to millions of years down the skin to enough to municipal all that. So we can understand the process behind to a physical process. Thats the idea behind in theres some books, experiments that i know totally in place is represented on the right. The model reveals whats been happening on the no sound, the totally and falls over the cost of millions of years. Although the movement is only from side to side, the sand is rising and falling at the boundary between the 2 plates. Its possible this type of movement is what forms the mom or a scene east dunbar. Because of the interaction between small segments of falls, you can also see that some parts are subsiding, theyre going down some parts outcomes, you know, 50. So its not on the horizontal displacement. You have also some of course thats coming up. Exactly, coming up uplifting on some far as going down some sizes. The model makes me acutely aware of how the Plate Movements will inevitably affect taquita. Because this movement is not going to start expanding. The totally implants will continue to drift. Westwood generating tremendous power. The as more and more pressure builds up near, you stumble. This impending stress is what drives scientists like. Patricia martinez goes off to keep gathering as much knowledge as possible the song as well. It just seizes every opportunity to learn more about the tectonic processes that she wants to go to the quick soon. In house, on the scientist travels from east, on the least was to hold some takia, one of the cities most impacted by the creek and february the along the road to the south. Todd coastal solar, jesus sets of 10 cities, people who could not leave the crate, so it has been sheltering here on the journey pets. We see, im not seeing those guns all makes use of every Movement Working on a paper about the dangers facing east. Denver of 1st stopped as a field near on takia the shes able to witness 1st time the brucell force and us create can on these tuckers john and this guy come and im shows hun olive grove near the sea get its the real oh wow. Look at these beautiful, this is of the following, the twigs, the us slew oceans here. The fisher now spends a length of several 100 meters. This is pursued in the beginning of a new valley here, right . We are assisting to the fair so for new valley, does this mean that theres going to be a continuation of this back that could be with, with further earthquakes . Or is this like a natural incident that youll 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 wouldnt be surprised if we see Something Like this. Perhaps not a spectacular display. Something like this happening here. Youre right. Yeah. For that then me. Yeah, shell be good. Thank you. Right. Hold on. I think youre doing yes. You know the motor lets this but, but you see on this is with. Yeah, its 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. Its a very soft, the rock that breaks very easy. And that it 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, its not clear what exactly happened to you. Its possible there was a large cavity, been nice to all as gross. 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 talk ya. 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. Its the collapse buildings that kill people. Not the quake itself. And takia was famous for its beautiful, vibrant old stitching this a song as destroyed. For example, this used to be the alley of a, of a most, okay. These buildings might be inevitably lost. But now we wouldnt be facing, requested it or is the soul of the city going to return. And also we have seen on the way here, thats 7 of these buildings thats been then they are the says that theres no one leaving them on the the for the question is of course many of them died as a consequence of this quick. But those that survive, they likely left the some what else . And when these formulas will be willing to return here and start their life here again, or is the city so how come them to remain the lonely course . To some extent, for a long the the you sent me the the, you called help but sync what is more buildings had which stood the quake of residents had been wound to guest house and time. How was how ties every every 3 sites the slightest. All the people of the stumble destined for the same fate. Off to the 1999, the quake building regulations were tightened. Kentucky 7, siri houses, built off to that time should be as quick proof. But as the disaster in house, i shows builders that didnt adhere to the new regulations and up in canada, i keith book applies says the same holds true for eastern will focus planner. They deliver stumble, the cube for less money. We know thats half of all construction work and its done. Vote is mostly on regulates its on, on supervisors, contract. Its very likely that the building codes are not being followed here. Which means, despite the regulations just im bull, were 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 calls in enough quick just like what happens. And then takia. Every house that crumbles trumps people underneath hundreds and thousands of families, neighbors and friends. But every house that remain standing can spare lives. So how can we make building safer . This question leads me to the country in western europe with the highest incidence of us quakes it to me at the university of policy, i visit the research foundation. I can tell you, one of its found is gm mechanic car, v says origin foot aims to reduce the risk of quakes post to human. To do this, the research of the test building. In the original size, you see the red line there, which means that we have somewhere hiding a type pressure. So we have to be careful though, we dont, because sometimes that, you know, 5 tend to be the engine. Anyway, here the, the scientists probably shows off one of the Worlds Largest us quick simulators. We can have a 5000 thoughts applied vertically dynamically. We can control the vertical load and displacement, the tutor vision. And we can move in arizona direction, whatever it is inside there. Its a test clearly shows rigid buildings with structural components that break easily your own well connected. Do not stand to town. This is exactly how many houses into okay, of build the flows on well attached to one another. So is this being tested . You see that there is an actuated from there that could move the same busi election. And there is an actuator where the bush and pulling this direction. So this is like part of 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 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 emetic. A models. 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 be a velocity or you know, size, or yet adamant to get who they not fall from pa, via in milan. I get the opportunity to conduct and us quick experiments myself after stalls up ice taxed if im not she and this colleague still developing shock absorbers that make buildings more a quick resistance. He shows me how the system well, the sense that in my hands controls the plates in an us create these plates move to dumping the buildings, vibrations in our experiments, the shock absorbers on mounted on the roof of the structure, the vibration stimulation us quick. The shock absorber should reduce the movements of the show without the shock absorber, the liquid is the least slow. Shes over the rim of the gloss. Ok, now we see the, the on the on yes, click on these the, on the windows. So could zuba is activated, the liquid remains almost entirely in the gloss. Is that still could still this perform even better on the us . Quick simulates and probably the building on the right, but the still keeps the old is installed on the roof is bad. The damage for the rest of the key, 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 as quick resistant. So could the ice sack shock absorbers also protect older buildings and the stumble that the so if an earthquake happens, theres 40 percent of the buildings could be damaged. And i was wondering if a technology likes this codes like favorite just, you know, for a why is this far, far they re repair everything. The technology is not invasive. Is it easy to be installed on an existing building . Because its composed of volume like the materials that mom and see the assembly the directly on the construction site. Mm hm. So you can imagine that this is a not to a fly that went into stocks. Are you not see way about to you are not amazing that was the shock absorbers could at least buy residents a little time to get to the safety of cost and storing them would be in a 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 the quake. The thats why hes done bullets trying to do them and theres thousands of on the safe buildings and replace them with a new us quick resist instructions, john and this guy come out and tells me the transition is well underway. As us look, as youre telling me there are 7000. 00 active construction sites every month. Thats 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 was 7000. 00 construction sites in this part of the city. The septic about any function construction is never ending. Eventually theyll come here and these 3 small buildings will be torn down and replaced the big bills that to me and affect if its Good Business for these people. But its 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 thats the, thats the goal of the in the fix 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. Thats what of implying the keys to look at. The law says beyond them that the construction sector has been left to the market. 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. The land has been used for large Construction Projects. Instead of being developed into parks or other outdoor areas, you can shop the experts, calculate steps in the event of an us quake that would be less than one square meter of open space per residents. So where could people go with the houses were destroyed after the quake, the in comparison, the playground, when my neighbors and i took refuge during the 1999 us quick feels almost like a luxury resort. My friend fathers tells me that people in hotel i say it smelt the dead who suffer from us quick. Its the survivors. The ones who watch the friends and relatives died. The other ones who watched and ways just help fails to arrive or arrives too late. Well know, people say when a major us creek strikes eastern, the we meet the residents in front of the old Apartment Building. Thats 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 dont us quick say by the images only a woman doesnt know yet where she lives the it was so long ago that i knew very little about the danger as quite exposed to the city where i was born and raised actually see, im asking those 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 of the stumble. I am very worried is to be quite comes what will remain of my beloved 16, the the the green and equitable wants to become one of the Global Leaders in the transition to clean energy. And everyone is expected to reap the benefits. Thats where the effort needs to be. Innovative projects create a new job. Well, generally, quality is tackled with a fresh perspective. Eco india. 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