Istanbul: A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 4.8 magnitude on the Richter Scale struck Turkey on Monday. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the earthquake was at a depth of 10 km.
Earlier in February, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country. More than 3600 people were killed and thousands of buildings were reduced to rubble.
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Turkey is in one of the world’s most active earthquake zones. The country’s last 7.8-magnitude tremor was in 1939, when 33,000 died in the eastern Erzincan province. The Turkish region of Duzce suffered a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in 1999, when more than 17,000 people died.
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