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..
Turkey earthquake reveals a new active fault zone By Wendy Zukerman An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck Turkey yesterday, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands. Turkey is one of the most quake-prone countries in the world. Most of it lies on the Anatolian plate, a small wedge-shaped tectonic plate that is being squeezed westwards as the Arabian plate to the east slams into the Eurasian plate.
The Castle Mountain fault is one of several major east-northeast-striking faults in southern Alaska, and it is the only fault with had historic seismicity and Holocene surface faulting. This report is a digital compilation of three maps along the Castle Mountain fault in south central Alaska. This compilation consists only of GIS coverages of the location of the fault, line attributes indicating the certainty of the fault location, and information about scarp height, where measured.