What does it mean that the building is earthquake resistant?
There is a set of criteria that must be met, based on which it is determined that the building is more resistant when an earthquake occurs and that it conforms to certain specifications that have been developed after many studies and research around the world, based on the nature of the soil on which it is built, the materials used, and the nature of the establishment of the infrastructure. In proportion to the nature of the soil, and finally, the building and construction steps conform to a set of standards and deliberate steps that make it more flexible and absorbent to earthquakes and ground attacks, and less prone to cracking and falling when natural disasters such as earthquakes occur.

What are the earthquake-resistant building standards?
1- The design should be distributed for both internal and external balance, and its orientation beats orientation should be horizontal.
2- Studying the soil in advance to ensure its hardness, where fragile or sandy soil is excluded in the areas that are on the earthquake line, as the strength of the ground decreases and increases the stability of the building when shaking.
3- The ability to build foundations to absorb shocks and to be stable as a single unit that cannot be disintegrated.
4- The lower the height of the building, the better it will be in its resistance to earthquakes, and for buildings that are higher than 50 m, expansion and subsidence insulators, and seismic joints are added on the upper floors.
5- Accurately distributing the loads and calculating them in a way that puts the load of the roofs on the concrete columns, and adds support to them through their connection in a square and solid shape to increase the solidity of the building against earthquake tremors.

How does Turkey face the threat of earthquakes?
After the famous Marmara earthquake that occurred in 1999, the Turkish government began to develop plans and enact laws to reduce the negative and destructive effects of earthquakes. government surveillance.
Since 2007, a new law has been issued stipulating conducting surveys of buildings and marking them in 3into categories: (low risk - medium risk - very dangerous). From this, the order of demolitions and reconstruction operations that take place under the supervision of the state is established, starting from the buildings with high risk, as they reach them. Immediate removal decision.
The other addition of great importance is the amendment of the mechanisms of supervision and follow-up of construction operations by the competent monitoring engineering companies, to be determined by the municipalities and not by the contractors, in a way that guarantees greater accuracy and transparency.

Opinions differ as to whether Istanbul is located directly on an earthquake line or not, but so far the largest earthquake the city has experienced was of a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter, and it did not cause a great deal of damage, indicating that the government's serious steps to develop and modernize the city's buildings by the standards of resistance against earthquakes It has borne fruit significantly, and raises the value of the city's shares compared to others.