. >> jonathan brandt's, operations manager for the red cross and red crescent society. >> thank you.this quake is being called the strongest to pitch turkiye in a century. i am joined by austin elliott, a geologist at the u.s. geological survey near san francisco bay. it is good to have you. how prone is this area between turkiye in syria to earthquakes? >> turkiye is one of the more earthquake prone countries on the globe. this earthquake struck an area that has been long known and understood to face significant seismic hazard. >> often we have heard there were reports of pre-shocks. you hear about aftershocks, but there were reports of f ore-shocks. does that mean there was a chance for people to get out of the buildings and save themselves had they reacted immediately after? >> the fore-shocks to this event, i believe there was one earthquake around magnitude four. for the most part, earthquakes like that are common in the area and many seismically active areas. very few are followed by larger earthquakes. so unfortunately, there really is no predictive capacity with any given for