'No Longer Safe' From Quakes: Fear Of 'Big One' Grips Istanbul | Barron's

'No Longer Safe' From Quakes: Fear Of 'Big One' Grips Istanbul By Remi BANET The helmet-topped engineer drove his pointy instrument into the concrete to test whether Durmus Uygun's building will crumble when the feared big quake finally strikes Istanbul. "I'm pretty confident but my children aren't convinced, so we're having this test done," said Uygun, who lives in one of the Turkish megalopolis's poorer and more densely packed neighbourhoods. More:'No Longer Safe' From Quakes: Fear Of 'Big One' Grips Istanbul | Barron's