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The worst part is it could very well be 10x worse than we know now.
Unfortunately they will be looking at 20,000 if not significantly more. >

Yeah we are only a little over 36 hours from the start of the earthquake. Death toll usually spikes after the 72 hours mark. >

Winter temperatures as well are making this extra terrible :( >

Yeah this is going to be really bad. I've heard its pretty wet in the region currently as well. >

At the risk of sounding ignorant, why is the death toll so huge? Poor building standards? I don’t know much about Turkey. Edit: I appreciate all the helpful responses! >

Poor building standards, to be more precise not enough "quality control". There was not enough preparation. >

Yep. A rich country like Japan can afford some REALLY nice anti-earth quake technologies in their buildings.
In poorer countries, I would guess the government would let slide poorer building standards in favor of more people being able to afford an apartment and not being homeless.
It probably seemed to work well enough for them for a few decades so the government let it slide more and more until you see entire neighborhoods erased from the map once the strongest earthquake of the century hits. >

Google Brazilian slums. Everyone here knows those places are probably not the safest buildings possible.
But it's not exactly popular to force 17 million people to be homeless, so if a slum gets big enough, the government just turns a blind eye to entire mini-cities being built with near zero engineering oversight, often by the "owner" owns hand. >

Does anyone know if the military has arrived at the area to aid yet? Last I heard Erdoğan was only going to send a few thousand troops and they hadn't gone there yet. >

Turkish military entered my home city (Marash) about 20 hours ago (4-5 am local time) >

I guess it's a good time to bring up Turkey changed it's name to Türkiye and the US State Department is now using it. >

So would you say Türkiyish leader? >

Turkish and Turkiye, they can be different. Kinda like The Philippines and Filipinos >

Fuck me 5000 dead.
That's more then the death toll on 911.
That's a lot of heart ace.