Well turkey the whole of turkey in fact is prone to violent earthquakes in fact here and they stand boulder in the late 1990 s. Just outside istanbul over 20000 people were killed in a devastating quake in the nearby city of is mit and that was calls on profound shock for out the country and these powerful earthquakes causing thousands of casualties isnt unusual for turkey in fact is stamboul is according to experts long overdue for another very powerful earthquake and now given the fact of these dangers there are now preparations. For pad for major quakes people are now given information of what to do in the event of an earthquake and in fact classes schools it is part of the education to prepare for a quake so there is education process going on turkey is developing an infrastructure to deal with these quakes that infrastructure is now in action in is mia and preparations like for cities like stamboul is also a large amount of preparation by the authorities national and local because