Similarities between the calamity unfolding this week in Turkey and Syria and the triple disaster that hit northern Japan in 2011 may offer a glimpse of what the region could face in the years ahead.
TOKYO — Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived.
People are also reading… Business Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid but rescues continue That magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m., March 11, 2011. Not long after, cameras along the Japanese coast captured the wall of water that hit the Tohoku region. The quake was one of the biggest on record, and the tsunami it caused washed away cars, homes, office buildings and thousands of people, and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
And despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent in Japan on reconstruction, some things won't ever come back — including a sense of place. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio World News A look at the world's deadliest earthquakes in the past 25 years What comes next won't be easyIn Japan, there was initially a palpable pride in the country's ability to endure disaster. People stood calmly in long orderly lines for food and water.
There's already been criticism that the Turkish government has failed to enforce modern construction codes for years, even as it allowed a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, and that it has been slow to respond to the disaster.
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