Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Revise the following draft

Turkey is located in a region that is shaken by severe earthquakes every year. The earthquakes caused by Central Anatolian Fault Zone which is one of the most active fault zones in the world, and it lies along the northern part of the country, going from southeast to northwest. The reason that the earthquakes cause a lot of damage and death of many people is not only the nature of the fault zone, but also that there are many cities and highways settled on it. It is just because of the lack of the information of this big giant in the regional planning of the country. There is no way that Turkey can't be affected from severe shaking in each year, and the most serious one occurred in August 1999. This earthquake affected a big area as wide as two kilometer and caused approximately 20,000 people death and millions dollars physical damage in three cities. In recent years, some early warning systems have been developed to be aware of the upcoming shakings, one possible method of the system is to build several hundred detectives in the deepth of the ground. Althought these can give warnings as short as 10 second before the shakings, if there is a well-planned rescue organization, this system may help to decrease, at least, the death rates in the earthquakes.

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