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Monday's quake was also one of the strongest that Turkey has experienced in the last century -- a 7.8 magnitude quake hit the east of the country in 1939, which resulted in more than 30,000 deaths ...
This week Turkey marked one year since the earthquake that killed more than 53,000 people in the country and left over 3 million homeless. Critics say the government hasn't met its promise to rebuild.
The survivors of Turkey's devastating 2023 earthquake are now grappling with another natural disaster: wildfires. Flames have ...
More than 15,000 people have been reported killed and tens of thousands of others injured by the earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday. Here’s why the quake was so devastating.
Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people, some almost unscathed, from the rubble, four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed more than ...
Turkey is a country familiar with earthquakes given its location over several tectonic plates, but disasters like Monday are not common. This week’s magnitude 7.8 quake was one of the most ...
Turkey earthquakes occurred naturally, experts say. More than 20,000 people are dead after magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes and a series of aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, as USA ...
She feels that, following the Golcuk earthquake of Aug. 17, 1999, which struck Marmara, Turkey, many have grown complacent. That one was a magnitude 7.6 that claimed about 18,000 lives.
Earthquakes damage Turkey's 2,000-year-old Gaziantep Castle; Despite this well-known seismic hazard, the region contains a lot of vulnerable infrastructure. Over the past 2,000 years, ...
Since the initial earthquake in Turkey, 50,000 people there and in Syria have died, and hundreds of thousands have lost their homes. That quake occurred on the East Anatolian Fault, ...
In Turkey—a country nestled between several plate boundaries and located directly on two main fault zones, the East Anatolian and the North Anatolian—earthquakes are a fact of life. The 7.8 ...
“Turkey is an earthquake-prone country so what’s important is that structures are sturdy and built according to code,” she says. “In light of this, I don’t think there is any heightened ...