World News for Students of English

15-02-2023 15:00

A series of strong earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria last week. More than 22,000 people died, but many bodies were still under the rubble.

The first earthquake had a magnitude 7.8 and it caused a crack more than 300 kilometers long. The second strong earthquake had a magnitude 7.5 and it cracked another 140 kilometers. This crack is called a fault line, and it moved Turkey by almost six meters. In many places, the fault line goes directly through houses and roads.

A drone footage showed the front line in the Kahramanmaras province, where was the epicenter of the earthquake. The front line completely changed the land and towns.

Difficult words: rubble (pieces of walls or buildings), magnitude (a number which says how strong and earthquake is), epicenter (a place above the center of an earthquake).

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