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Istanbul getting ready for major earthquake

Istanbul getting ready for major earthquake

Jan 1, 2012

The precise time and place of an earthquake cannot be predicted – that is what you will hear from any seismologist. But they can state with confidence in which areas there is a very high probability of a big earthquake, within a few decades. There has been an average of one big earthquake every century in Istanbul for the past 1,500 years. The last one was...