Most of Turkey sits on the Anatolian Plate, which is being forced westwards by the collision between the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate This westward movement is accommodated by two large strike-slip fault zones, the west-east trending right lateral North Anatolian Fault in the north of the country and the SW-NE trending left lateral East Anatolian Fault towards the south-east. Movement on these two faults has been responsible for many large and damaging earthquakes historically. The most recent major earthquakes on the East Anatolian Fault were the 2003 Bingöl earthquake and the 2010 Elâzığ earthquake.[1]