Earthquakes in Turkey
Turkey is a tectonically active country that experiences frequent destructive earthquakes. At a large scale, the tectonics of the region near the recent earthquake are controlled by the collision of the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. At a more detailed level, the tectonics become quite complicated. A large piece of continental crust almost the size of Turkey, called the Anatolian block, is being squeezed to the west. The block is bounded to the north by the North Anatolian Fault and to the southeast by the East Anatolian fault.
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