Homework: Turkey Earthquake

1.) What are the names of the two tectonic plates which are interacting to cause earthquakes in Turkey. 

• The names of the two tectonic plates which are interacting to cause earthquakes are named the Arabian Plate and Eurasian plate. 

2.) What kind of plate boundary is it? 

• The plates are convergent boundaries. 

3.) What is the most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years? 

• The most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years as a M7.8 earthquake that hit Erzincan in 1939.