Marc O. Eberhard

Mar 17, 2023 | seattletimes.com | Harold J. Tobin |Jeffrey Berman |Marc O. Eberhard

Like everyone else, we have been saddened and horrified by the tremendous loss of life and the suffering in Turkey and Syria caused by the twin powerful earthquakes and their aftershocks. Tens of thousands of buildings collapsed, trapping and killing so many people as they slept. More than 100,000 buildings that didn’t collapse were damaged so extensively that they must be demolished, leaving more than 1 million persons without homes.