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Turkey-Syria earthquakes: A seismologist explains what has happened

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

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