When the stress on the edge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel through the earth’s crust, resulting in the vibration felt.Ī network of seismographs are used to record earthquakes with each individual seismograph recording and measuring the movement of the ground in its location. The earth’s crust is broken up into tectonic plates that are constantly moving, slowly, often getting stuck at their edges due to friction. The effects of the quake were felt across West Asia, Northern Africa and South Eastern Europe with residents of Lebanon, Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Egypt also reporting tremors, wrote The Guardian. This is a highly populous region, exponentially increasing the likelihood of casualties. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was centred about 33 km from Gaziantep, around 18 km deep, reported AP. Most large earthquakes have occurred along the Northern Anatolian Fault in N. Just looking at the distribution of magnitude 7 and greater quakes since instrumental records began (~1900), today’s M7.8 event is by far the largest quake ever recorded in this region. It has the same magnitude as one that killed about 30,000 people in December 1939 in northeast Turkey, tweeted Stephan Hicks, a researcher in seismology at the Imperial College London. According to experts, the quake is the joint largest on record (since roughly 1900) in Turkey.
#deprem /YDc8DH9lbnĪ magnitude of 7.8 on the Moment Magnitude scale is indeed really strong. In #Sanliurfa the moment a building collapsed recorded by mobile phone hours after 7.8 #earthquake hits Turkey. Videos of buildings being razed to dust have been circulating on social media. “I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I’ve lived”, Erdem, a resident of the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the quake’s epicentre, told Reuters. Many survivors have claimed that this is the strongest quake they have felt in their lives. This event is likely to be a humanitarian catastrophe in a region already ravaged by over a decade-long civil unrest and a refugee crisis. Reports have put the number of fatalities over 1,300 with thousands injured.
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