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 there may be more earthquakes along the ...

Turkey is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, so earthquakes are not a surprise. The country is located between two major tectonic plates that effectively squeeze Turkey out ...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck near Istanbul, Turkey’s emergency management agency reported on Wednesday. The tremor, centered in the Sea of Marmara about 40 ...