because seismologist marco bourne hof and his team studying the city on the bus paris the earth's crust is especially unstable in the region for you somebody goofier don't bowl is extremely at risk over the past 50 years this mega-city has grown from a population of about $1000000.00 residents to more than $15000000.00 or and unfortunately just off the coast of istanbul there's an active plate boundary and from what we can tell it's under enormous stress focus fund. a tremendous amount of energy is currently building up underground. and. just. like all continents sirup sits atop a tectonic plates directly in front of istanbul in the sea of marmara the eurasian plate meets the anatolian plate forming a so-called full zone. typically these plates pushed past each other bit by bit and gas bubbles rise from the ocean floor we can see this from footage taken by a french german turkish research team. that right off the coast of istanbul the plates stuck we don't see the usual gas bubbles . but the earth's plates cannot move alongside each other the pressure builds energy accumulates. if it di