Two large earthquakes have occurred in the ... north-eastwards along the tectonic plate boundary. Light shaking was felt as far away as Turkey’s largest city Istanbul (around 815 kilometers ...
With only a bonfire for light and warmth on a bitter ... Emel Filik tells us apartment residents were worried about safety before the earthquakes There had been concerns about these apartments ...
Before the earthquake, 19-year-old Ceyda Ocan went shopping with her best friend, Damla, to buy the butterfly curtain pictured above On an indistinct mound of rubble in southern Turkey is an ...
Turkey has experienced deadly earthquakes before. In 1999, during the infamous Izmit Earthquake, the ground shook for under 40 seconds but nearly 20,000 people died. That disaster registered a 7.6 ...
While people slept, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked and devastated southern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Monday, only to be followed hours later by 7.5 magnitude aftershock. Thousands are ...