http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/devastating_1215/ Frederike Geerdink's weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/devastating_1215/comment-page-1/#comment-5617 davidmeeks Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:00 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=1215#comment-5617 You bring up the angst that we face all too well. It is not IF the big one will come to Istanbul, but WHEN. Emily Schmall has an interesting comparison of the '99 quake in Istanbul and Taiwan - good reading http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/poverty-predicts-quake-damage-better-than-richter-scale/19376567 You bring up the angst that we face all too well. It is not IF the big one will come to Istanbul, but WHEN.
Emily Schmall has an interesting comparison of the ’99 quake in Istanbul and Taiwan – good reading http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/poverty-predicts-quake-damage-better-than-richter-scale/19376567

]]> http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/devastating_1215/comment-page-1/#comment-5614 Yazarc Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:38:17 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=1215#comment-5614 What I don't understand is why there isn't a communal memory of earthquakes in a country as earthquake-prone as Turkey. I wonder is it to do with the fact that history is seen as the realm of the elite and that villages or towns don't write their own versions. But still I would expect that there would be stories; back in the quake of xxxx year, the belediye collapsed so it was rebuilt up there and survived the next big one, for instance. I would expect it to be built into the local folklore. Instead it seems the same mistakes are made repeatedly with little effort made to learn from them. What I don’t understand is why there isn’t a communal memory of earthquakes in a country as earthquake-prone as Turkey. I wonder is it to do with the fact that history is seen as the realm of the elite and that villages or towns don’t write their own versions. But still I would expect that there would be stories; back in the quake of xxxx year, the belediye collapsed so it was rebuilt up there and survived the next big one, for instance. I would expect it to be built into the local folklore. Instead it seems the same mistakes are made repeatedly with little effort made to learn from them.

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