‘No longer safe’ from quakes: fear of ‘Big One’ grips Istanbul ...Middle East

ISTANBUL: 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.“If the result is good, we will live in peace. But who knows where we will be when the earthquake hits? We may be at the supermarket or at work -- that’s what scares us.”In his fifties and wearing a black beret, Uygun is far from the only one living in fear in Istanbul.Turkey’s cultural and economic capital is home to

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