Abstract
ON July 30, violent earthquakes occurred on the central plateau of Anatolia. Twelve villages including Peyk were destroyed near Yozgad, the shock also being felt at Ankara, Erzinjan, Tokat, Kayseri, Amasya, Sinop, Istanbul and intervening places. Three hundred people are reported to have been killed and several hundreds of others injured. The epicentre of the shocks appears to have been near Yozgad, which is not far from Erzinjan, the centre of the greatest of all Turkish earthquakes on December 27, 1939 (NATURE, January 6, p. 13). The present shocks cannot be considered as aftershocks of the December 27 earthquake nor are they so intense, but they point to the same general instability of the whole region at the moment, of which all the shocks are the result. It must also be noticed that such a terrific earthquake as that of December 27 would itself give rise to instability which would persist for a considerable time and give rise to earthquake shocks in general not so intense as the original one. Aftershocks of the earthquakes of July 30 were continued on the next day.
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