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Armagh18

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Re: Middle East earthquake
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2023, 10:25:22 PM »
Jesus Christ the new is a hard watch. Fair play to the rescuers, horrible horrible job.
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armaghniac

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Re: Middle East earthquake
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2023, 08:40:25 PM »
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Thank God they built the hospital properly (centre, with vertical white aerial), but it shows the difference between doing it right and not. How much would it have cost to build the other buildings correctly, I wonder, and how many lives would it have saved?

Any Californian engineers here?
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Re: Middle East earthquake
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2023, 06:40:35 PM »
Another quake there. We are fortunate that Ireland is seismically stable.
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Re: Middle East earthquake
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2023, 06:48:09 PM »
Quote from: armaghniac on February 20, 2023, 06:40:35 PM
Another quake there. We are fortunate that Ireland is seismically stable.
On the other hand they didn't have the Brits as neighbours.

Erdogan was elected on the back of public disgust after an earthquake in 1999.
Earthquakes often lead to political change.
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