New Zealand experienced a tremor around magnitude 6 on Wednesday, just two weeks after the Turkey-Syria quake. Geologists explain whether the two events are related.
LONDON The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday (Feb 6) is likely to be one of the deadliest this decade, seismologists said, with a more than 100km rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. Here is what scientists said happened beneath the earth's surface and what to expect in the aftermath: The epicentre was about.
The Syria-Turkey earthquake brought widespread destruction to the two regions on Monday as the 7.8-magnitude tremor was one of the deadliest in the last decade.