BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 13:08:00
Turkey is all too familiar with these natural disasters. it is one of the well�*s most seismically active areas. the country sits among several tectonic plates, and there are to make a major fault lines where they meet, the east anatolian fault line is where the quake struck. as the place grind past each other, tension gradually builds up along the fault line, before it is released, resulting in an earthquake. the east anatolian fault line is around 250 miles long. but what made the quake so deadly is how shallow it is. it happened at a depth ofjust 11 miles. since 1970, this region has seen...