This area of Turkey 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. Arabia is ...

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 ...

Two years have passed since a devastating earthquake shattered Turkey’s southern region. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake and a second powerful tremor that came hours later left more than 53,000 people ...

Turkey is a region prone to earthquakes because it sits on several tectonic plates. Two earthquakes that hit in February 2023 were between a 7.5 to 7.8 magnitude. Despite the risks associated with ...

Greece’s tourist island of Santorini on Sunday braced for the prospect of more tremors after more than 200 small earthquakes ...

The Himalayan mountain range was formed after the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided around 50 million years ago. How does their movement continue to impact the region?