Hourly Weather - Freetown, Sierra Leone

At a Glance The region sits on three tectonic plates.The earthquake happened at a shallow depth.Thousands of people were injured or killed. Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. There were several factors at play that made Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria so devastating and that shape earthquakes in the region overall. Charles Ammon, an expert in earthquake seismology at Penn State University, explained the science behind...