Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 27 August 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5432, pp. 1334 - 1335
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1334
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News of the Week

EARTHQUAKES:
In Turkey, Havoc From a Falling-Domino Fault

Tim Appenzeller

Although seismologists could not have predicted when last week's magnitude 7.4 earthquake would strike northwestern Turkey, they had long expected it. The cataclysm was just the latest in a series of massive earthquakes that have marched along 1000 kilometers of the North Anatolian fault since 1939, the most recent being a magnitude 7.0 quake that struck in 1967. Seismologists say the quiet stretch of fault to the west, passing near the port of Izmit, was the obvious candidate for a future earthquake.

Read the Full Text

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)