Tremors from the powerful earthquake that struck southern Turkey and neighboring Syria, killing 1,500 people in the two countries, were felt as far as Greenland, the Danish geological survey announced Monday.
“Big earthquakes in Turkey have clearly registered on seismographs in Denmark and Greenland,” seismologist Tine Larsen told AFP.
“The earthquake reached the east coast of Greenland”
According to the American seismological institute USGS, a first earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred in the middle of the night at 04:17 (02:17 Paris time) in the district of Pazarcik, in the province of Kahramanmaras (southeast), 60 kilometers in a straight line from the Syrian border, and at a depth of approximately 17.9 kilometers.
“The earthquake waves reached the seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm (in the Baltic Sea) about 5 minutes after the start of the tremor,” Larsen explained.
“Eight minutes after the earthquake, the quake reached the east coast of Greenland and then spread across the whole of Greenland,” the scientist said.
7.5 magnitude aftershock
Late in the morning, a new 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey.
“We recorded the two earthquakes, and many aftershocks, in Denmark and Greenland,” the seismologist said.
This earthquake is the largest in Turkey since the earthquake on August 17, 1999, which killed 17,000 people, including a thousand in Istanbul.
Source: BFM TV
