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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: Why did so many buildings collapse in Turkey’s earthquake?
Description: Most people were tucked up in bed when the first quake hit. The ground shook violently as a fault roughly 200 km long and 25km wide slipped, causing a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The force of the quake in the early hours of February 6 caused death and destruction across hundreds of kilometres of eastern Turkey and northern Syria.
The UN estimated that 23 million people were affected; the death toll jumped by hundreds, hour after hour.
But as a number of experts told us in the wake of the tragedy, it’s not earthquakes that kill – it’s...