Envelope #24: Turkey earthquake

Hey there, Andy Lin here. Welcome to another issue of my newsletter: Back of the Envelope, where I focus on SE-related mini-lessons to help you (and myself) become slightly smarter.

Today I am going to talk a little about the Turkey/Syria earthquake…

This one was tough to write. Lots of people lost their lives, and many lost their friends, loved ones, and their homes ☹. My heart goes out to all those affected.

But we are structural engineers – so we need to talk about building collapses and failures. We need to talk about earthquakes. We need to talk about it so we can learn something and hopefully make the world safer.

Here we go.

(Estimated reading time = 2 minutes and 49 seconds)