It was nearing 9 p.m. on January 24, 2020, and Ahmet Ozbulut was steeping a cup of black tea, part of his nightly routine. He'd spent the day, like most since his retirement, puttering around his yard and visiting friends around Elazığ, a city of about 350,000 people in the Upper Euphrates River Valley in Eastern Turkey. The area is known for lush vineyards and an endemic grape varietal called öküzgözü, which translates to “bull's eye.†Ozbulut had switched on the TV and just settled into his couch to watch the nightly news when he first noticed ripples in his tea, then heard items falling in the kitchen and bathroom. He looked up and saw the chandelier swinging like a clock pendulum. Seven miles under his feet, a tectonic collision had occurred, sending energy racing upward through the Earth, a result of the ongoing movement between the Eurasian, African, Arabian and Anatolian plates. The bull's eye was now on his hometown. He tried to stand but the undulating floor quickly sent him back to the couch. For the next 40 terrifying seconds, Ozbulut could only hope that the tons of reinforced concrete from the second story of his home would not come crashing down.