Experts Quash Fears of Greater Chance of China Quake After Turkey

In the city of Kirikhan in Turkey’s Hatay province, rubble spills onto the street from a building destroyed by the earthquake that hit the region on Feb. 6. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin

In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Turkey, a years-old academic study on seismic activity in China has sparked concerns that the overseas disaster has increased the possibility of domestic tremors in the near future. But the fear is unfounded, experts said.

The study, published in 2014 in the China Earthquake Administration’s journal Earthquake, showed that based on global data of earthquakes dating from 1900, increased activity in the Eurasian seismic zone could lead to powerful quakes on the Chinese mainland within three years.