Istanbul Past, Present and Future

Earthquake unlikely to discourage tourists and residents from the city's magnetic charms

The earthquakes that struck southern Turkiye and northern Syria were equal to the destructive power of 32 Hiroshima bombs or nearly eight million tons of TNT, seismologists told the NYT. Multiple quakes and aftershocks in the south probably equal 500 nuclear bombs, Turkish officials asserted five days later. The death toll has exceeded 43,000. Though I…