Season 4, Episode 3 of “Kunnen we het maken?”. In this podcast we will dive once again into the wonders of the underground. However, unlike last time this podcast will not discuss what we can do underground, but what the effect of the ground can have on us and our buildings. That’s right! This month we will be talking about earthquakes. This subject is very relevant due to the recent earthquakes that hit Turkey and Morocco as well as our own lovely Groningen. Why do accidents like these occur and what can we do to prevent them? For this we have asked Ihsan Bal to tell us more about this unique topic. Ihsan is a professor at the Chair of Earthquake Resistant Structures at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen. Before coming to Groningen, he has directed Research & Development at the Technical University of Istanbul and worked in the industry in the USA, Italy and Greece. Find out more in this months episode about, the unique issues of earthquakes and their solutions, and the projects Ihsan Bal has been apart of.