causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean there may be more earthquakes along the ...

When plates break apart, the redistribution of stress within the Earth’s crust can trigger earthquakes. This means that regions such as northwest Iran, Iraq, and southeast Turkey could ...

Major earthquakes in the last two decades, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 ...

Fabrice Cotton, co-author of the study and Head of GFZ-Section 2.6 Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics. The measured data for this study were partly delivered by the Plate Boundary Observatory (GONAF ...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded on Monday, February 20, in Turkey's southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 earthquake that killed more than 44,000 in both Turkey and ...

Koshnaw adds: “This plate is pulling the region downward from below, making space for more sediment accumulation. Towards Turkey, the sediment-filled ... and better characterization of the earthquake ...

Around 2.5 million people still live in tents after Turkey's earthquake. In the Mediterranean coastal city of Iskenderun, demolition teams have been using heavy machinery to dismantle buildings.

More than 20,000 people died after two massive earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on Monday Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin ...

Second, super-imposing on the existing seismic zonation maps which are really x-ray plates, new carefully drawn mapped-plans for the protection (which can include evacuations, demolitions and re ...

A mother has been reunited with her newborn baby girl 54 days after they were separated during the chaos of a catastrophic earthquake in Turkey. Government authorities brought the 3-month-old ...