Eastern Marmara Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Eastern Marmara
Africa collided with Eurasia 70 million years ago and is still ploughing into it. This created mountains and volcanoes along the spine of what became Turkey - the volcanoes have ceased spewing (cross fingers) but there are continual major earthquakes along the North Anatolian fault line stretching the width of the country. The focus of the quakes appears to be migrating west: the latest bad one, in İzmit in 1999, was of magnitude 7.6 and took 18,000 lives. It's feared the next could devastate Istanbul. The Gaziantep earthquake of 2023 was along the adjoining Eastern Anatolia fault line and hasn't lessened or heightened this risk. Eastern Marmara is therefore mountainous. The mountains draw clouds and rain, so their flanks are lushly forested. Early settlers had limited level ground for agr
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