According to the USGS Indonesia is very active seismic zone and has the most earthquakes for a given country while Tonga, Fiji probably has the most earthquakes per unit area. Turkey earthquake does not surprise seismologists. The deadly magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Turkey appears to be the result of oblique-thrust faulting in a country covered in earthquake faults and prone … But Turkey is fundamentally vulnerable to earthquakes because of its geographical location. Turkey is, in effect, caught in a geophysical vise between the Arabian plate, inching northward, and the Eurasian plate, the immovable object. The country sits between two huge tectonic plates, …