The major earthquake ... Turkey’s two main fault zones — the East Anatolian and the North Anatolian — make it one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Map showing the East ...

But scientists believe they can serve as useful analogs of how major earthquakes begin ... in the vicinity of where the world’s biggest earthquakes eventually occur, say the study’s authors. “We find ...

Turkey, a hotbed of seismic activity, sits on the Anatolian Plate, which borders two major faults as it grinds ... that have taken place along those fault lines in the past few decades.