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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.
Figure 10l-12: Animation of a horst fault. The final major type of fault is the strike-slip or transform fault. These faults are vertical in nature and are produced where the stresses are exerted parallel to each other (Figure 10l-13). A well-known example of this type of fault is the San Andreas fault in California.