Quake Provides Lessons About Faults...08/27/99

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Scientists say they have learned key lessons from the deadly earthquake in Turkey that could save lives along the country's North Anatolian fault and its California twin, the San Andreas. When the North Anatolian fault unleashed a 7.4-magnitude quake Aug. 17 that resulted in more than 13,000 deaths, it behaved in ways scientists had imagined possible, but never seen. It jumped over lakes and ignited other faults, which has some seismologists worried the same could happen along the San Andreas. In the Turkish region, it has also bolstered a theory that the quake's seismicity, or the movement of its epicenter, has been migrating west toward Istanbul, a city of some 12 million.

 

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