BBCNEWS Newsday June 4, 2024 01:13:00
Editor rebecca morelle. this is the most powerful earthquake to have hit the region in almost a century. the epicentre was here in the south of turkey close to the city near the syrian border. it is one of the worlds most seismically active region and the reason for that is because turkey sits with three tectonic plates come together. the arabian plate pushes upwards into the eurasian plate that forces the anatolian plate west, moving about two centimetres every year. as the plates grind past each other other fault lines are created. the north anatolian fault has been where major earthquakes h...