Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation.
The ban was in response to the widespread environmental and economic damage it was causing. Unchecked sea sand...
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement...
Alarm bells” for a very strong earthquake to hit Istanbul have been sounded by yet another seismologist in Turkey.
Geologist and seismologist Professor Naci Görür...
An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 hit eastern Turkey on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
The earthquake was at a depth of 10...
Seismology professor Naci Gyorur warned of the possibility of a major earthquake in Turkey, with strong fears for Istanbul, possibly even 9 Richter.
Naji Gyorur,...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4 shook Turkey shortly before midnight.
The epicenter of the earthquake was 10 kilometers southeast of Izmir and the...
A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that...
An international team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has, for the first time, accurately determined the age and formation process of...
Researchers know a lot about Turkey's next major earthquake. They can pinpoint the probable epicenter, estimate its strength and see the spatial footprint of...
ETH Zurich researcher Luca Dal Zilio offers an insightful summary of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, shedding light on the complex nature...
When a devastating earthquake and aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria this month, Klara Imangalieva—who lives in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan—realized she had...
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed tens of thousands across Turkey's southeast has reignited fears of an even more catastrophic death toll if a long-feared...
By Constanze Letsch, a former Turkey correspondent for the Guardian
The death toll from the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has now surpassed 37,000....
