Christian Atsu (1992–2023)

[Nine]

Fucking hell, hopefully he’s ok 

[Guest]

Ah shit.

[Guest]

 

 

 

 

[gdm]

Hope he’s ok 

[Big Geordie]

I hope he is rescued and is OK.

[gbandit]

Fuck, always came across as a lovely lad. Fingers crossed 

[Jimburst]

Sounds awful, I hope the search and rescue teams have a lot of success over the next few days.

[huss9]

no, no, no.

 

[James]

Shit

[frankpingel]

Shocked by this, hope he's found.

[Zero]

OMG. Please no.

[Tiresias]

Hope he's ok  awful

[NG32]

Tragic news

[toontownman]

Hoping he and the others trapped are ok. Terrible.

[Miggys First Goal]

Fucking hell. 

[Dokko]

1800 dead. 2nd quake has just hit at 7.5 (1st was 7.8) that doesn't sound good for continued resuce situations. I fear that could jump quite a but.

 

Middle of the night the 1st one, will have caught so many unaware and not in buildings with much safety measure 

[Kid Icarus]

I get that it's a money thing in a lot of places, but it's absolutely crazy to me that Japan is still one of the few earthquake hotspots that uses lightweight materials for its buildings. Something stupid like only 19 people died from the actual earthquake in 2011.

[Gallowgate Toon]

Seems like a really nice bloke - iirc, he did a lot back in his home country with his money. Really hope for the best outcome for him.

[Stifler]

21 minutes ago, Dokko said:

1800 dead. 2nd quake has just hit at 7.5 (1st was 7.8) that doesn't sound good for continued resuce situations. I fear that could jump quite a but.

 

Middle of the night the 1st one, will have caught so many unaware and not in buildings with much safety measure 

Isn’t the 2nd one elsewhere in the country?

[Groundhog63]

13 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

I get that it's a money thing in a lot of places, but it's absolutely crazy to me that Japan is still one of the few earthquake hotspots that uses lightweight materials for its buildings. Something stupid like only 19 people died from the actual earthquake in 2011.

Is it not, also, that they're building ate designed to be flexible? Remember seeing a short documentary on it and, in the footage inside, a building was swaying too and fro. Not a crack in sight

[number37]

12 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

I get that it's a money thing in a lot of places, but it's absolutely crazy to me that Japan is still one of the few earthquake hotspots that uses lightweight materials for its buildings. Something stupid like only 19 people died from the actual earthquake in 2011.

In New Zealand they use base isolators where they separate the building from its foundations and put what are essentially large rubber springs in between to absorb the impact. On one of my many wanderings around the Beehive in Wellington they took me on a tour to show me as Parliament, Wellington and New Zealand in general is a matter of yards away from a fault line. 

 

Obviously no consolation at all for the people of Turkey right now, I can't imagine what it must be like to be at the mercy of nature in such a devastating way. 

[Kid Icarus]

5 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Is it not, also, that they're building ate designed to be flexible? Remember seeing a short documentary on it and, in the footage inside, a building was swaying too and fro. Not a crack in sight

 

I think so yeah. 

[Danh1]

Fuck sake, praying that he and others are found safe and well.

 

I recall from his time here that he would always send money back to his homeland to help the poor. Always seemed a good bloke. 

[kenlau88210]

Please be ok

[Dyeyzzon]

Please no.