Part one of term paper
On August 17, 1999, Istanbul, Turkey, had an earthquake that lasted 45 seconds and in those 45 seconds killed approximately 18,000 people. The death toll in the earthquake rose to 13,040 people and 26,640 people were injured. People are still believed to be underneath the rubble of the earthquake. More than 200,000 people are homeless. A ...

Part two of term paper
... codes of the state. The media has not put a blame of the building codes of the state due to the earthquake. If the building codes were brought out to inform the state about the cause the earthquake would do, not the extreme amount of people would have died in such a short amount of time. The building codes have a special regulation to inform what an earthquake would do; that was not the case in Istanbul, Turkey. On the other hand, the earthquake has moved nations closer to each other. The for ...