Tectonic plates are massive slabs of rock on the Earth’s crust from 10 miles to 160 miles thick that are always slowly moving. Turkey’s earthquake struck along the East Anatolian fault zone, a ...

The earthquake in Turkey that killed more than 3,100 people and set off a series of aftershocks ruptured just over 11 miles beneath the earth’s ... Arabian and Anatolian tectonic plates meet.

Turkey is an "earthquake hot spot" because three different tectonic plates converge in the area: the Arabian, Anatolian, and African plates, writes The Washington Post.At the same time, the ...

Turkey sits at the intersection of three major tectonic plates: the Eurasian plate, the Arabian plate and the African plate. The Anatolian plate is much smaller and sits in between these larger ...

Scientists have determined that a volcano and mountain plateau across Turkey formed not by the collision of tectonic plates, but by a massive detachment of plate material beneath Earth's surface ...

Geology Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another. ... Turkey's latest quake shook Izmit in 1999, ...

The earth’s crust is made up of roughly 15 massive segmented chunky slabs called tectonic plates which are constantly in motion. The land on which buildings are built rests on these plates.

A series of powerful earthquakes that struck Turkey have likely moved the entire country by upto six metres, according to Italian seismologist Carlo Doglioni.. Two major earthquakes of magnitudes ...

More than 2,000 people died and thousands more were injured following a massive earthquake that hit Gaziantep, a town in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border early Monday morning. Additional ...