The two earthquakes that struck Turkey on the 6th, with a provisional balance of 42,000 dead and 115,000 injured in the country, had more than 7,000 aftershocks, the Turkish national emergency service (Afad) announced on Tuesday.
According to the director of Afad’s seismography department, Orhan Tatar, there were three different earthquakes, two on the 6th, with an epicenter in Kahramanmaras, and magnitudes 7.7 and 7.6, and another, independent of these, on the second Monday . in Hatay, on the Mediterranean coast, magnitude 6.4.
In total, 7,242 aftershocks of these three earthquakes were registered, of which 41 were of magnitudes that varied between 5 and 6, that is, earthquakes with a magnitude that, in Turkey, normally occur 10 times a year, always causing panic, although seldom. .victims
Another 450 aftershocks had magnitudes between 4 and 5, which usually register an average of five times a month in the country, always scaring the population.
Magnitude 5 earthquakes, as a rule, do not cause buildings to collapse, but they can topple one already damaged by a previous quake, Orhan Tatar said.
The earthquakes with their epicenter in Kahramanmaras broke, into five parts, the 400-kilometer geological fault in eastern Anatolia, declared the expert quoted by the Ef news agency, explaining that it moved, in some places in the earth’s crust, between 7 ,2 and 7.3 meters.
The earthquake on Monday in Hatay, which corresponds to the Antioquia fault, had 116 aftershocks, of which the largest, which occurred three minutes later, was of magnitude 5.8, it added.
This earthquake caused the death of at least six people and nearly 300 injured.
Source: TSF
