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[saki]

Thank you for your concern, I am safe for now. A big one indeed happened 2 hours after my first post, another happened just now, as I am writing. But this one was very small compared to the previous ones. I hope I can return to my home.

[Loud Whispers]

Thank you for your concern, I am safe for now. A big one indeed happened 2 hours after my first post, another happened just now, as I am writing. But this one was very small compared to the previous ones. I hope I can return to my home.

Keep us updated and stay safe Saki, the news is saying this is a big one

[Egan_BW]

Stay safe.

[McTraveller]

Wow yeah 7.4-7.8 is no joke.


EDIT: Wow, some of those videos.  My kingdom for building codes.  I can't imagine the shock and fear, assuming that the places you work and live are sturdy... only to collapse in an instant.  Assuming your way of life is sturdy, only to collapse in an instant.   

I pray the people get the community support they need...will have to see what I can do, from so many thousands of miles away.

[dragdeler]

Spoiler: too soon ignore (click to show/hide)

Erdogan: If they don't take us into the EU I'm crashing our terrestral crust into theirs.

[Magmacube_tr]

Yea that earthquake was truly awful.

And I am being affected by it, in a very convoluted way.

The goverment is temporarily borrowing the uni dorms for the disaster sufferers. My dorm was one of them. I was just an hour away from the dorms after this holiday, and now I have to go back home.

[saki]

That really sucks Magma, at least you can go back to your home.

My house seems to be fine, there aren’t any cracks but I doubt it is going to stay that way if another quake happens. I think I am very lucky compared to most people, I have food and a place to sleep.

[Frumple]

Yeah, if you got that it'll be okay eventually. Going through major disasters is never fun, and it'll probably be a long while before things are back to normal. It's been nearly half a decade now, but the tree line still looks weird occasionally around here, the results of a cat 5 hurricane rolling over the area. I've never been through a major earthquake, but if the damage is on similar scale it'll probably be a couple months at best before things even start to stabilize for a lot of the region. Just hang in there, stay safe, do what you can for who you can. It'll be tough, but it's survivable if you've made it through the initial damage.

E: ... probably longer than a couple months, current reports are at least 1300 dead so far, hitting both turkey and syria primarily with damage reaching as far as tel aviv. That's a big one, it's going to be rough as hell to recover from that

The blame thrown around is going to be vicious, too... apparently after a big one back in '99 there was basically no hardening done to infrastructure in the region. The area knew it could get hit by a earthquake this size and took very little precautions for it.

[Magmacube_tr]

The blame thrown around is going to be vicious, too... apparently after a big one back in '99 there was basically no hardening done to infrastructure in the region. The area knew it could get hit by a earthquake this size and took very little precautions for it.

Yeah, the vast majority of the surviving old (pre-'99) buildings will collapse when the next quake hits. At least we've done quite alot of checking on the integrity and did reinforcing to ours. Our apartment survived that event with very little and superficial damage. I am confident it will last a second.

The new buildings are not that bad.  At least we aren't stacking ten floors with no support and calling it a day anymore. The '99 disaster did create a public conscious. Most adults here have their horror stories of that night and had at least one relative who died from it.

[King Zultan]

Dang, you guys stay safe out there.

[TD1]

There's been a stabbing near my local university. In suspected-to-be-related news, there are also reports of a woman pretending to be injured outside a medical building. Once help is offered a pair of men appear to rob you.

So... now if I see a distressed woman, my impulse will not be to help them 

[Il Palazzo]

Are those reports coming from the police? Because, frankly, it sounds like a made-up story.

[dragdeler]

Why does it sound made up?

[Il Palazzo]

Just a feeling. Admittedly one that's going off a rather brief description so I'm making assumptions here. Perhaps a bit weird that robbers would do so in front of a medical facility and not somewhere less exposed. Or that they'd need somebody to pretend to be wounded instead of just, you know, walking to them and robbing them. Like, what's the advantage here?
It faintly smells of sensationalist stories people sometimes spread about the event du jour, to score some weird attention points or something.

[dragdeler]

I mean usually a hospital has at most 2 entries and at least 4 sides.

I was mugged once by a bitch mastermind and two grunts so maybe I am biased...



If the woman is on the ground you can force your victim to put itself in a more vulnerable position like kneeling.  Also more means to abort the robbing and plausable deniability than when jumping people from behind before finding out if they are armed.


And this is just a hunch: I doubt they stabbed a victim, either someone seeked them out for revenge because it would be stupid to pull this more than once at the same spot... or the two things are unrelated, just a coincidence... but it's just a hunch.