Turkey-Syria earthquakes: A seismologist explains what has happened

Feb 7, 2023

The earthquake waves suggest this event was 7.8 out of 10 on the moment magnitude scale. Image: REUTERS

Jenny Jenkins

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University

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This latest earthquake is likely to have happened on one of the major faults that marks the boundaries between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. Image: The Conversation.

People standing around collapsed buildings that fell during the earthquake in Syria. Image: The Conversation/EPA-EFE/Yahya Nemah.

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