Greece Turkey Standoff Earthquake Now Korea

Turkey is a seismically active area within the complex zone of collision between the eurasian plate and both the african and arabian platesmuch of the country lies on the anatolian plate a small plate bounded by two major strike slip fault zones the north anatolian fault and east anatolian faultthe western part of the country is also affected by the zone of extensional.

France juara piala dunia earthquake california gardena. Turkeys president recep erdogan speaks during a meeting in ankara turkey tuesday sept. Massive 70 quake strikes near samos buildings collapse in turkey a greek island has been struck by a 70 magnitude earthquake causing the collapse of multiple buildings. Erdogan has threatened greece with military action and described turkeys activities in the.

By mehmet emin caliskan and murad sezer izmir turkey reuters fourteen people were killed in turkey and greece after a strong earthquake struck the aegean sea on friday bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands. People ran onto streets in panic in the turkish city. Relations between the greek and the turkish states have been marked by alternating periods of mutual hostility and reconciliation ever since greece won its independence from the ottoman empire in 1830the two countries have faced each other in four major warsthe greco turkish war 1897 the first balkan war of 1912 to 1913 the first world war 1914 to 1918 and finally the greco turkish.