Overview of the Marmara region, with the urban area of the Istanbul metropolis (red contour) and the Main Marmara Fault (red line). The orange circles represent the earthquakes for which ...

They analyzed 31 well-constrained earthquakes of magnitude ML > 3.5 in the Sea of Marmara, west of the Istanbul megacity. Smaller earthquakes occur more often and can thus be studied in greater ...

ANKARA, February 17. /TASS/. Some 10,000 residents of Istanbul live in houses that may instantly collapse in case of an earthquake, Bugra Gokce, Deputy Secretary General of Istanbul's city hall ...

A4.8 magnitude earthquake struck on the Richter scale in the northern Turkish ALBAWABA - A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck the northern Turkish city of Bolu, near Istanbul, on Thursday.

"Depending on where a future large earthquake would nucleate, these asymmetric rupture patterns could lead to heightened ground motion towards the urban center of Istanbul," states Prof. Patricia ...