An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Türkiye, near the border with Syria.
The shaking caused by energy traveling outwards from the source or epicenter has already had terrible consequences for people living nearby.are thought to have died across the two countries, and there are reports of damage to gas pipelines leading to fires.This area of Türkiye is prone to earthquakes as it lies at the intersection of three of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust: the Anatolian, Arabian, and African plates.
This latest earthquake is likely to have happened on one of the major faults that marks the boundaries between the Anatolian and Arabian plates: either theArabia is bumping into Eurasia and pushing Anatolia westwards … or to non-Earth scientists, Syria is bumping into Europe and squeezing out Türkiye.
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