Tatyana Gorelova, Director of the Crimean Republic Seismic and Landslide Hazard Assessment and Technical Inspection Center for Construction Projects, said that the tremors that occurred off the coast of Crimea on February 27 may be caused by the repetitive activity in the earthquake zone in Turkey. Transmits words TASS.
Gorelova urged residents to remain calm and assured that the specialists of the center checked all the information. According to him, any analytical forecasts linked to aftershocks will be released after data from their network is processed.
“Until now, we have not recorded anything that is a harbinger of something terrible,” said the CRC director.
According to Gorelova, the earthquake reached 3.1 points and its epicenter was at sea, about 39 km south of Yalta.
Petr Shebalin, Director of the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a previous statement, “Newspaper.Ru”It was stated that the tremors recorded on the southern coast of Crimea were not related to the earthquakes that occurred in Turkey.
Prior to that, the adviser to the head of the Crimea, Kryuchkov declarationresidents of the South Coast of the republic reported a strong shaking underground, the center of which was between Yalta and Alushta.