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Izmir turkey weather 2020 10 20 the jp turkeythe anatolian plate which consists primarily of turkey is being pushed west about 225 cm 0810 in a year as it is squeezed between the eurasian plate to the north and the arabian plate to the south izmir2020 03 17 181434 utcat 1814 march 17 2020 utc turkey.

Turkey chili everyday food. 52 in palekastro crete greece. The largest earthquake in turkey. A powerful earthquake has rocked turkey as it destroyed buildings and triggered a tsunami that swept through coastal towns.

Map of the recents earthquakes in turkey. Turkeys new earthquake risk map uses information about the location of earthquake fault lines and local geological conditions to show the risk from earthquake damage in all of turkey. Tuerkiye deprem tehlike haritasi indeksi.

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. The 1999 izmit earthquake also known as the kocaeli goelcuek or marmara earthquake occurred on 17 august at 030140 local time in northwestern turkey. For example the november 1759 near east earthquake is thought to have killed somewhere between 2000 20000 people.

Turkeys new earthquake risk map uses information about the location of earthquake fault lines and local geological conditions to show the risk from earthquake damage in all of turkey. The northern termination of the dead sea transform occurs within a complex tectonic region of southeast turkey where interaction of the africa and arabia plates and the anatolia block occurs. Turkeys official earthquake map updated with the efforts of five universities and two state institutions for the first time in 21 years is expected to be presented to the council of ministers on jan.

Construction companies are obliged to take the earthquake map which highlights quake hazard. As a result of this plate tectonics configuration turkey is one of the worlds more active earthquake and volcanic regions. Local time on 24 january at a depth of 15km and centred near the district of sivrice in eastern elazig province.

1 the anatolian plate together with the aegean peloponnesus block is located near the centre of a very wide region including the arabian plate with the adjacent zagros mountains and central iran that moves in a. Turkey updates earthquake map after 21 years gizem karakis ankara. Help earthquake headlines last 30 days earthquakes special quakes plate tectonics education links.

56 magnitude earthquake 2020 08 04 093737 utc at 0937 august 04 2020 utc location. Turkey earthquake map and miracle. 52 in palekastro crete greece.