Duke experts look at the politics and engineering of earthquake damage Serra Güllü was just 2 years old in 1999 when a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the city of İzmit in Turkey, killing thousands ...

The owner of hotel in Turkey that collapsed in an earthquake has been jailed for ... handed a prison sentence of over 17 years, while civil engineer Halil Bağcı was sentenced to seven years ...

Turkey’s construction codes meet current earthquake-engineering standards, at least on paper, but they are rarely enforced, explaining why thousands of buildings ... fled the civil war and ...

Buildings were ... miles away from the first earthquake's epicentre, satellite imagery shows the impact on the once-busy downtown city of Nurdagi in southern Turkey. Kahramanmaras was once known ...

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck south-eastern Turkey, demolishing buildings in Malatya and trapping people. Turkish officials report more than 50 people killed, and the toll is rising as a wide ...