According to Mr. Tselentis, the possibility in Greece of having a major earthquake as a result of the earthquake in Turkey is “minimal” and if anything happens, it will be at sea
The director of the Geodynamic Institute, Akis Celentis, gave his own pessimistic predictions for the number of victims of the two strongest earthquakes of 7.8 Richter that hit southeastern Turkey today, speaking to the SKAI news bulletin.
The professor estimated that the dead will reach 15,000, as thousands are still trapped under tons of concrete, while almost 3,000 buildings have been leveled in a radius of 600 km from the epicenter of the earthquake.
The work of the rescue crews was interrupted by the second major earthquake shortly after 12 noon.
According to Mr Celentis, this was a new earthquake as a “domino effect on the same fault”, and not an aftershock of the morning.
The new earthquake will have its own strong aftershocks and this is the worst in the already tragic situation,
In fact, the post-earthquake sequence will last for months.
“We will never experience such images in Greece”
In today’s earthquakes in Turkey, the eastern Anatolian fault was activated, which has nothing to do with the northern Anatolian fault, which affects the Greek area.
According to Mr. Tselentis, the possibility of a major earthquake in Greece as a result of the earthquake in Turkey is “minimal” and if anything happens, it will be at sea.
Explaining why the earthquake is not related to Greece, he noted that there is the African plate, which strikes the Arabian plate to the east. The Arabian plate is separated from Turkey by a fault. The earthquake occurred on this fault. This fault has nothing to do with the fault of northern Anatolia which also affects the Greek area because it reaches the northern Aegean.
“The possibility that it will affect Greece is very small, even negligible, it is far away and has a different direction. “If it was on the North Anatolia fault, then yes we would have had an issue, like in ’99” he said earlier speaking to “Mismatches”.
Also, in the affected areas there is an ugly structural fabric in the area with “shabby” buildings, which have nothing to do with buildings in Greece, even the oldest ones.
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