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Turkey’s largest city is threatened by a lurking seismic catastrophe
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Turkey is no stranger to catastrophic quakes. In February 2023, a pair of earthquakes obliterated parts of southern Turkey and Syria, killing at least 55,000 people.
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Robin George Andrews
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ISTANBUL – 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 past two decades, earthquakes of rising magnitude have occurred, steadily moving to the east.
