After the earthquake in Hatay, Turkey created A huge fault, 30 m deep and about 200 m wide, bisects an olive field in a local village. The fault was filmed from a drone, writes “Russian newspaper”.
Local residents said they heard a loud boom during the earthquake—probably the sound of the earth’s crust moving.
A number of other eyewitnesses reported “green light” and “green smoke” at part of the fault. It was found in a 35-hectare olive field in Tepehan village center. As one of the eyewitnesses of the incident noted, before the earthquake the field was completely flat.
“Comparable to the explosion of 500 nuclear bombs”
What happened in southeast Turkey? earthquake comparable to the explosion of 500 nuclear bombs, said Orhan Tatar, head of risk minimization department of Turkey Emergency Management Department, Anatolia.
“The duration of the first earthquake was 65 seconds, it had a devastating effect.
The second earthquake had a devastating effect for 45 seconds. The area shook violently for about two minutes. “The energy released by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake is equivalent to the energy of 500 atomic bombs,” he said.
Carlo Doglioni, Head of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, said in a statement that the Arabian Plate was covered during the earthquake that occurred in Turkey. affected According to the Anatolian plate, it is approximately 3 m from northeast to southwest.
“The 3m offset is a preliminary estimate,” he told the newspaper. Corriere della Sera. In fact, the scientist explained that Turkey has changed its relationship with Syria.
In his opinion, it is impossible to predict when a series of aftershocks will end – the phenomenon will not stop until the accumulated energy is released.
“From our available estimates, which are being gradually improved, we know that at least 150 kilometers of the fault has been activated by a displacement of 3 m or more. So it’s as if Turkey has shifted southwest relative to the Arabian plate,” he said.
It cannot be said that the earthquake in Turkey could have been caused by human activities. “socialbites.ca” Ruben Tatevosyan, Deputy Director of Engineering Seismology and Seismic Hazard Assessment at IPE RAS, comments on the assumptions involved.
“I don’t know of a single earthquake that wouldn’t grow with conspiracy theories, that’s normal.
The fact that the tension was accumulating on the plates there was obvious 10-15 years ago. This is an active region, so this earthquake was not predictable but expected. Because the place is such a place that any active benefit can be an earthquake,” he said.
The part where the earthquake occurred is part of the global system of East Anatolian faults. The five plates converge at this point, so researchers knew that someday a seismic event would occur here, he said.
“Let’s say if an earthquake occurs on the N American Plate, then it would be possible to say that someone knows how to cause earthquakes.
Because there is no geological justification for its formation. Of course, there have been examples of unexpected earthquakes in history, for example in Neftegorsk, Gazli. However, as it turned out, these places were not well explored – there were active faults, they just did not pay attention to them, ”Tatevosyan concluded.
On the night of February 6, 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes occurred near the Turkish-Syrian border, followed by a series of weaker tremors. According to the latest data, the number of earthquake victims in Turkey exceeded 21 thousand people, more than 80 thousand people were affected. About 6.5 thousand buildings were destroyed.
The death toll in Syria was 3,553. The Ministry of Health of the Republic reported that 1387 people died in the areas not controlled by Damascus, 2166 people died. red blood cell.