President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the two earthquakes that occurred in the southeast of the country on February 6 were three times stronger than the earthquakes that occurred in the Marmara Sea region in 1999. DEA News.
“The earthquakes that occurred on February 6 were 3 times stronger than the 1999 earthquake that was remembered throughout the country,” he said in a statement in Diyarbakir.
He added that the “disaster of the century” caused destruction even 500 km away from their epicenters.
On the morning of February 6, Turkey was shaken by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, which, according to President Erdogan, was the most severe since 1939. On the same day, another 7.6 earthquake occurred. Then aftershocks were heard in Syria, Iran and many other countries in the region, where people also lost their lives. According to the latest data, the number of victims approached 21 thousand.