Large earthquakes move Turkey by 5-6 meters, said the seismologist | World news
The devastating earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Monday may have moved tectonic plates – on which the former country sits – as much as three feet (10 metres), an Italian geologist has said. Professor Carlo Doglioni told Italy24 that initial estimates suggest that the earthquakes may have led to Turkey “moving by five to six meters compared to Syria”. A more accurate diagnosis is pending information from satellites, he said.
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More than 16,000 people have died and more than 11,000 houses – in addition to large areas of major cities in both countries – have been destroyed after five earthquakes and more than 100 aftershocks. the area. Doglioni told Italy24 the earthquake caused a type of fault called ‘shallow migration’ with the hypocenter – the deep place where the earthquake originated.
According to Doglioni, many earthquakes are part of a series of earthquakes that are released at the intersection of four plates that collide frequently – the Anatolian, Arabica, Eurasian and African plates – and accumulate energy until they trigger activation. of long fault.
“The great laceration has an area of 190 km long and 25 km wide … shaking the ground strongly and causing a path that reaches two peaks that are the strongest (that are) nine hours apart,” he said as he explained the changes in the earthquake. – affect the area.
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On the severity of the earthquake, he said that as a ‘tornado epidemic’ for a long time, it could continue for days or months, if not years, as it happened in cases just back.
Meanwhile, a search and rescue official said time is running out for survivors buried in the earthquake’s destruction to be found, as search efforts near the 72-hour mark.
Ilan Kelman, a professor of disasters and health at University College London, said that more than 90 percent of earthquake victims were rescued within the first three days, the report added.
