Lebanon and Israel are actually quite avoided by the Earthquakes - and they life quite far from the main earthquake areas. Earthquakes sometimes happen in the North of Iraq, but not many and not in all parts of the country.
The correct answer is Turkey - it experiences frequent earthquakes in all parts.
It can be both
by improving transportation routes to Mecca
and
by improving sanitation and medical facilities
I do not believe that a strong nation should be able to boss around weaker nations. This is just wrong in that a nation should be free to decide what it wants to do. A strong nation can assist them in developing. How ever they should not rule them. At that point that weaker nation will be stripped by of their sovereignty. This is not that times of Empires.
You can infer that the sand is made of different type of rock than normal beaches because of its color. it could be cooled lava
