Powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean ...

When plates break apart, the redistribution of stress within the Earth’s crust can trigger earthquakes. This means that regions such as northwest Iran, Iraq, and southeast Turkey could ...

“While earthquakes can’t be controlled ... In this case, it was the Arabian plate moving northward and grinding against the Anatolian plate. “Turkey is squeezed the way you would squeeze a watermelon ...

Seismologists have repeatedly warned about the possibility of a powerful earthquake near Istanbul, which is located at the junction of the Anatolian and Eurasian tectonic plates. Researchers ...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded on Monday, February 20, in Turkey's southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 earthquake that killed more than 44,000 in both Turkey and ...

Around 2.5 million people still live in tents after Turkey's earthquake. In the Mediterranean coastal city of Iskenderun, demolition teams have been using heavy machinery to dismantle buildings.