Why was the Turkey-Syria earthquake so bad?
The Briefing Room
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The Epicenter of the Recent Turkey-Syria Quake
Earth's outermost layer is divided into tectonic plates around the world. Those plates kind of rob against each other or collide, those are where we expect the biggest earthquakes. The Arabian plate is plowing northwards into Europe and Asia at a rate of about 11 millimeters per year. Turkey is getting in the way of that collision and has to sort of escape westwards.
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