A verdant olive grove was cleaved into two during last week’s devastating earthquake in Turkey, creating a 984 foot-long valley that now divides the area.

Olives, their oil, and the trees they grow on hold an oversized place in local imagination. It is assumed that all ancient anointing was done with oil of the olive fruit, then as now a precious fluid.

An olive grove was split by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6. A chasm that is 984 feet long, 165 feet wide, and 130 feet deep now cuts across the grove.

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