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Jason Beaubien

Is it safe to go home? With hard hats and phone apps, Turkey's engineers seek answers

Yasin Pinarbasi walks into a building he inspected that suffered some earthquake damage, west of Antakya, Turkey. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

SAMANDAG, Turkey — Yasin Pinarbasi usually works in an office in the Turkish capital Ankara. Now the civil engineer is clomping across unstable earthquake debris inside a four-story apartment building northeast of the city of Samandag.

From the outside the building appears to be in reasonably good condition, but once he enters there's a cinder block wall that has collapsed on the ground floor. Chunks of plaster and broken tile are strewn across the entryway.

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