title: Why Did Such Giant Stress Accumulate on the Joining of Four Tectonic Plates in Eastern Turkey? A Review
abstract: The Easternmost Mediterranean is a junction zone between the largest Earth's lithospheric segments &amp;ndash; Eurasian and African-Arabian, and a transition area from the ocean to the continent. The latest catastrophic earthquakes in eastern Turkey require their geodynamic understanding. The two most decisive events (with magnitude (M) = 7.8 and 7.7) were observed with an interval of 9 hours on February 06, 2023, followed by a whole series of about 10,000 significative aftershocks. These tragic
journal: Preprints.org