The Balkans are a highly seismic region, with Greece and Turkiye having more areas with seismic activity than Bulgaria, Corr. Memb. Nikolay Miloshev, Director of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NIGGG-BAS), told BTA. He commented on a statement made by Turkish scientist Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Kaya, according to which a large fault line running through Plovdiv and reaching Edirne is expected to cause an earthquake with a magnitude of up to 7, putting at risk mainly Chirpan, Plovdiv, and Stara Zagora.
Earthquakes in Greece and Turkiye are much larger in terms of quantity and…
