In August 1999, a powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Marmara, a densely populated region to the south of Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, for 45 seconds. Within days, the official death ...

Duke experts look at the politics and engineering of earthquake damage Serra Güllü was just 2 years old in 1999 when a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the city of İzmit in Turkey, killing thousands ...

Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent. More than 17,000 people were also killed in a powerful earthquake in north-western Turkey in 1999.

The UNDP estimates that the disaster had produced between 116 million and 210 million tons of rubble, compared with 13 million tons of rubble after the earthquake in northwest Turkey in 1999. Turkey ...

Turkey has experienced deadly earthquakes before. In 1999, during the infamous Izmit Earthquake, the ground shook for under 40 seconds but nearly 20,000 people died. That disaster registered a 7.6 ...