Feb. 10, 2023
Dear Brittany,
As I’ve said last year, Wonder Woman got nothing on you.
Last Dec. 30, 2022 I sent an email to PM Rishi Sunak furnishing a copy to you. A part of that email reads:
“On Aug. 8, 1993, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Guam. The damage was estimated to be $250 million. However, none of the buildings designed by my brother Nemy Macario was affected by this powerful earthquake. ”
On Wednesday Feb. 1, 2023, I got this and wrote on my draft:
Call:
On Monday February 6, around 4:15 a.m. local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south central Turkey near the Turkey/Syria border. Just 11 minutes later, it was followed by a magnitude 6.7 aftershock. The largest aftershock at the time of writing was a M7.5 aftershock which struck 95 km (~60 miles) to the north. USGS observations and analyses indicate all these events are occurring within the East Anatolian fault system.
From: Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake in Nurdagi, Turkey The USGS has up-to-date details on the February 6, 2023 quake!By Communications and Publishing February 5, 2023
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/magnitude-78-earthquake-nurdagi-turkey
4:15am in Turkey is 5:15pm Sunday Feb. 5, 2023.
YouTube: Powerful earthquake rocks Turkey and Syria, killing thousands
Global News
44,440 views Mon. Feb 6, 2023 #turkeyearthquake #GlobalNews
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 1,900 people.
Hundreds of people are believed to be trapped under the rubble as of Monday morning, and the death toll is expected to climb as rescue workers search mounds of rubble in cities and towns across the area.
“I was sleeping when my wife suddenly woke me up. The quake was very severe, very scary,” described a man in the Turkish city of Diyarbakır. “It took almost two minutes until the shaking stopped.”
The quake, felt as far away as Cairo, was centred north of Gaziantep, a Turkish provincial capital. It struck a region that has been shaped on both sides of the border by more than a decade of civil war in Syria.
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This Time Magazine article published on Thursday Feb. 9, 2023 (below) says the collapse of thousands of buildings in Turkey could have been avoided. “Old buildings across the country don’t meet modern quake-resistant building codes, and experts told TIME that although newer construction plans often call for higher building standards, they’re sometimes not carried out on the ground.”
As recently as last November, civil engineers raised warnings that the country’s infrastructure was incapable of handling a large earthquake. Old buildings across the country don’t meet modern quake-resistant building codes, and experts told TIME that although newer construction plans often call for higher building standards, they’re sometimes not carried out on the ground.
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On Aug. 8, 1993, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Guam. The damage was estimated to be $250 million. However, none of the buildings designed by my brother Nemy Macario was affected by this powerful earthquake.
Naturally we tried to market his services to earthquake-prone California. I don’t know what we did wrong, but we never even got a foot in the door, so to speak. Below is my business card when I was trying to promote my brother’s Structural Engineering business. By the way, my brother still has his office on Guam. These are the main reasons why I prefer a Royal Charter.
