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Anatomy of Failure: Turkey Earthquake Disaster

As I sit on the 11-hour overnight local bus to Istanbul, my mind is still deep in the magnitude of the disaster I have just witnessed in the Syria-Turkey border area. The destruction is beyond anything I have seen in my 20 years of disaster response work.

Earthquake Structural Engineers Dispatched to Turkey Earthquake Disaster

In response to the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey and neighboring Syria today, Miyamoto International has dispatched its earthquake structural engineering and humanitarian assistance experts from its Istanbul and California offices to provide support. The earthquakes, with magnitudes of 7.8, have claimed over 6000 lives so far and injured hundreds of thousands, with the toll expected to rise.