Little by little and bit by bit. (English proverb) The one who tells the stories rules the world.. (Native American proverb, Hopi) If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.. (Arabic proverb) Better a good neighbour than a distant friend..
The small Turkish micro plate is bounded on the east by the East Anatolian fault zone (EAFZ), on the north by the North Anatolian fault zone (NAFZ), on the west by a diffuse zone of deformation surrounding the greater Aegean region, and on the south by the Hellenic and Cyprus arcs.
Earthquakes in Turkey. North-western Turkey, the county's most densely populated region and industrial heartland, has been struck by two massive earthquakes in 1999. The first, on 17 August 1999 at 03:02 local, measured 7.4 on the Richter scale and lasted 45 seconds. Izmit, an industrial city of one million in western Turkey, was nearest the epicenter