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close to the city of gaziantep, near the border with syria, one of the world s most seismically active regions. that s because turkey sits on the fault line, where three tectonic plates come together. the arabian plate is constantly pushing into the eurasian plate which squeezes this one, the anatolian plate, to the west. it s moving at about 2cm every year. where the plates grind past each other, more fault lines are created, leading to the earthquake we saw yesterday. our middle east correspondent, tom bateman, spoke to us from the city of iskerandumn, in southern turkey. i was just talking to a family who are unable to go to this very badly damaged building here, and told me that they have four friends missing in the building and one confirmed dead, but the big problem for them, this is a grandmother with children
Tragic photographs from Kahramanmaras showed father Mesut Hancer (pictured) crouching on a steep pile of rubble, his left arm stretched out to his side and holding on to the hand of his dead daughter.