Arabia is moving northwards into Europe, causing the Anatolian plate (which Turkey sits on) to be pushed out westwards. The movement of the tectonic plates builds up pressure on fault zones at ...

Tens of thousands of people have been killed and scores more injured by a huge earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey ... about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing serious damage ...

For years, Turks have been warned of the potential of a big earthquake but few expected it to be along the East Anatolian fault, which stretches across south-eastern Turkey, because most of the ...

Matsumura Kimiyoshi of the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology found this tablet in Turkey's Buklukale ruins last May. The tablet contains 70 lines of text. The shape of the cuneiform ...

To mitigate this earthquake damage, in this project we are conducting research on earthquake-resistance technology, developing an earthquake and tsunami scenario platform, conducting an earthquake ...