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Many buildings at risk of collapse had already been either torn down or evacuated after the 2023 earthquake, Malatya governor Seddar Yavuz said. Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 'wannabe faults' are found branching off of major fault lines like the San ... on February 2023, when Turkey and Syria ...

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.