Quakes: Call on Turks and on Greeks The "art" of photography was
invented in 1826. The use of steel-reinforced concrete started
around 1876. So, for 135 years, from 1876 to this day (2011), it
has been possible to have photos of steel-reinforced concrete
buildings destroyed by quakes. Newspaper archives, worldwide,
are full of innumerable photos of multistory steel-reinforced
concrete buildings in which their occupants were crashed to
death, in the most agonizing way, when the buildings collapsed,
during an earthquake. If observers from another planet could
view the material and social changes that appeared on the face
of the earth during the last one hundred years, they would
conclude that one of the most important factors for the existing
material and social reality on the planet has been the use of
steel-reinforced concrete. The ease and speed with which humans
can make a concrete building frame has enabled them to construct
multi-story buildings in infinite numbers. From the moment of
the arrival of this