Faults leave country vulnerable

TURKEY lies over a fault in the earth’s surface running east to west and is frequently shaken

Fri, 02 May, 2003 - 01:00
quakes, often with serious consequences.

The greatest disaster in modern times came on December 27, 1939 when a quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale left some 45,000 people dead in the eastern region of Erzincan.

Other major quakes in the past four decades were:

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