Turkey’s Largest City Is Threatened by a Lurking Seismic Catastrophe

Turkey’s largest city is threatened by a lurking seismic catastrophe

New research suggests that powerful quakes are marching toward the Main Marmara Fault. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Turkey’s Largest City Is Threatened by a Lurking Seismic Catastrophe

Something ominous is happening deep below the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. A fault line beneath this inland body of water, which links the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea, has caught the attention of scientists. Over the last two decades, earthquakes of rising magnitude have occurred, steadily moving to the east. The latest in this sequence, in April, was a magnitude 6.2 temblor. And if the pattern were to continue, eventually a large quake could rea…