Powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria ... plates under the region mean there may be more earthquakes along the faultlines. Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than ...

When parts of Turkey and Syria were hit by a huge earthquake ... by building collapses happened in larger cities, not near fault lines, data showed. Margarita Segou, a seismologist with the ...

Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent. More than 17,000 people were also killed in a powerful earthquake in north-western Turkey in 1999.

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Once confined to territorial sovereignty disputes among Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, the region’s offshore natural gas resources have transformed the eastern Mediterranean into a strategic region in ...

when twin earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in several provinces in southern Turkey — a disaster that highlighted the country’s extensive network of geological fault lines as well as ...