“Japan has more earthquakes than us, but they’re still alive because they have good buildings.”
The death toll from Monday’s quake has eclipsed the more than 18,400 who died in the 2011 earthquake off Fukushima, Japan, that triggered a tsunami. It has also surpassed the estimated death toll of 18,000 people lost following a temblor near Istanbul in 1999.
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