A Turkish seismologist mentioned the magnitude of the earthquake that brought chaos to Turkey and Syria
The deadly earthquake on the Turkey-Syria border had a power equal to 130 atomic bombs, said the Turkish professor of seismology Dr. Ovgyun Ahmet Ercan commenting on the two major earthquakes that have left behind thousands of dead and injured.
“The earthquake on February 6, 2023, which was expected for centuries in the fault areas of Hatay, Osmaniye, Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, had a magnitude of 7.4, the power of 130 atomic bombs and lasted 43 seconds, had a focal depth of 5 kilometers and was very effective. The devastation is huge on a cold winter’s day,” he wrote on Twitter.
“The epicenter of the earthquake is located at the junction of four major faults, the Dead Sea, Eastern Anatolia, the Arabian tectonic plate and the Cyprus Arc,” Ovgyun Ahmet Ercan also noted and added that the earthquake was the largest that could give the area and was magnitude 11 on the disaster scale.
Hatay-Osmaniye-Kahramanmaraş-Gaziantep kirıklar çatağında yüzülarıldır expected earthquake M7.4 size and about 130 atom bombası güçınde, 43 seconds duration, 6 February 2023, 5 km gibi sıgda, çok ektilı ızıl. On a cool winter day, felaket çok büyük.
— Prof. Dr. Övgün Ahmet Ercan (@ovgunaercan) February 6, 2023
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