Powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. The many fault lines in the region make earthquakes common.

WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean there may be more earthquakes along the fault lines.

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