Jenny Jenkins

Guest writer

Jenny Jenkins is assistant professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, UK

A local man carries water bottles as he passes by a collapsed building on February 7, 2023 in Elbistan Turkey – a humanitarian crisis that New Zealand contributed aid to. (Photo: Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images)

Turkey-Syria earthquakes: a seismologist explains what happened

At a magnitude of 7.8, this week's horrific earthquake near the Turkish border was 177 times stronger than Christchurch's in 2011.

By Jenny Jenkins | 8th February, 2023