Quake-prone Istanbul not at heightened risk: Expert ...Middle East

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ISTANBUL: Fears of another major earthquake have been rekindled in Istanbul since the February 6 disaster that hit Turkey and Syria, but a prominent Turkish seismologist has reassured the risk “hasn’t increased”.“The risk hasn’t increased because we are talking about completely different systems,“ Dogan Kalafat, the director of the Kandilli Observatory’s Earthquake-Tsunami Monitoring Center in Istanbul, told AFP.Turkey's most populated city is situated near the North Anatolian Fault while the recent 7.8-magnitude quake that killed 43,500 people occurred along another fault in the country's southeast, Kalafat explained.Still, the 16 million residents of Istanbul, a city that spreads over two

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