Ruben Tatevosyan, deputy director of engineering seismology and seismic hazard assessment at IPE RAS, says the theory that an earthquake in Turkey and Syria could be caused by a change in the rate of rotation of the Earth’s core is wrong. earthquakes and seismometry.
“The core has nothing to do with it. It slows down its rotation relative to the outer shell. We can only say that there was a very small slowdown, so this process could not affect the earthquake in Turkey in any way. Moreover, this process began to occur in the 70s, but the Chile earthquake or the Alaska earthquake occurred earlier. And these are very serious seismic events. To make such big “discoveries” you need to know a very short history of earthquakes. The more you know, the more immune you are to such hypotheses,” the scientist explained.
According to the seismologist, the earthquakes occurred on a well-defined active fault, where seismic activity will continue.
“This piece is a part of the East Anatolian fault system. This is a key place, always characterized by high seismic activity. There will be aftershocks, aftershocks, but they will not be as strong anymore,” Tatevosyan concluded.