Massive earthquakes in Turkey and northern Syria kill thousands

Massive earthquakes in Turkey and northern Syria kill thousands

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T northern Syria are seismically turbulent regions, but the earthquakes that struck on February 6th are the most devastating since one near Istanbul in 1999 that killed 18,000 people. The initial quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, hit in the pre-dawn hours, with an epicentre near the southern Turkish…

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