Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

In this zone, earthquakes and tsunamis are often caused by subduction -- where one plate slides below another ... pressure currently hangs over Turkey and Syria. As that moves off, this will ...

In light of the recent disaster that occurred in Turkey and Syria ... up from these plates interacting with each other, and the release of energy from that movement is where earthquakes are ...

When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria early Monday morning ... Most of the country is situated on the Anatolian Plate, which borders two major fault ...

A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake followed by another strong quake devastated wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday ... where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally.

Tens of thousands of people died in a pair of cataclysmic earthquakes. It was only a matter of time before the region surrounding Turkey and Syria experienced "the big one," according to experts.

Thousands of people in Turkey and ... Turkey and Syria, as well as in parts of Iraq. Turkey is located at the intersection of four tectonic plates and that makes it an earthquake-prone country.

Not long after two major earthquakes on Feb. 6 killed more than 40,000 people in Turkey and Syria, baseless social ... They "occurred due to the driving force of plate tectonics," said Tobin.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — There have been over 100 earthquakes in the past 7 days in Turkey and Syria with two being above ... Looking at the region the Anatolian Plate is moving against the Arabian ...

A second 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Turkey after the 7.8-magnitude temblor earlier Monday. The quakes have killed more than 3,700 people in Turkey and northern Syria, and the toll ...