Turkey’s earthquake was far stronger than anything we’ve seen here. Building standards are vastly different here. Modern residential buildings in our region are lightweight rigid (wooden) boxes, vs Turkey’s heavy (poorly assembled) brick and concrete buildings. Those building are too heavy for rigidity, and to frail for any flex. For larger/taller buildings here, ‘sway’ is designed in to them so the entire building is to survive a tremor ‘giving’ (although unlikely any 9.0 that there are talks about).