Earthquakes are natural disasters, of course in Turkey buildings were not prepared for that, better not to think about what would happen in USA with an earthquake of 7 on the Richter scale.
And yes, is a local disaster but happened while all the security measures were ignored, the syndicates told that this could happen, and here we are one year later. Biden even forbid one of the transport syndicates strikes.
USA would be fine if it hit there. The paper houses in the US would suffer less damage than the concrete buildings in Turkey.
They don’t use the Richter scale since over decade ago. When it’s reported now it’s a new scale where a 7 is approx a 4.4 on Richter/ look into it
Richter Scale hasn’t been used in 15 years. This wasn’t a 7 on Richter scale. The new scale a 9 is a 6 on Richter. Media reports the new scale not Richter
Bullshit. Richter scale is the international measure for earthquakes still in the world.
Hasn’t been for 15 years here in the west.
I know there is another scale, the scale MW but it doesn't diminish the importance of earthquakes as you said, in fact, it adds more magnitude levels because the Richter scale couldn't measure above 7 disasters.
The magnitude of this earthquake has been huge, there is a fracture of 200km long in Turkey as result of it, nothing similar to a 4.5 earthquake.
Of course it doesn’t, I didn’t suggest it did. Just making a note that 99% of people don’t know this.I simply made a factual statement the number would be much lower on old scale. I didn’t in anyway question how horrible this event was at all. Especially knowing it was made worse on purpose by USA technology.