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 San Andreas fault's nick name is SAF. The San Andreas Fault is the most famous fault in the world. Its notoriety comes partly from the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but rather more importantly because it passes through California, a highly-populated state that is frequently in the news. And with many research institutions dedicated to studying such an accessible fault, the SAF has become a household name.