An incredible geological event occurred today in Turkey after a deadly earthquake of 7.7 on the Richter scale, which “shaken” the Asia Minor peninsula: the entire country moved three meters.
He writes about it in his statements Italian professor Carlo Donioli, President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, stating “a huge event on a worldwide scale”, emphasizing that “what we call the Arabian Plate moved about 3 meters in a northeasterly direction and in a southwesterly direction along relation to the Anatolian plate.
“We are talking about a structure in the border region between this world, the Arabian Plate and the Anatolian Plate,” he added.
It should be noted that usually the geological movement over the area is 2-3 millimeters per year. Sometimes, after strong earthquakes, the plates can move 3-30 cm, such as a city Lixouri on Kefalonia moved 20 cm.
From the estimates we have, which are gradually being refined, we know that the fault has intensified for at least 150 kilometers with a displacement of up to 3 meters or more. Everything happened within a few tens of seconds, causing this earthquake of magnitude 7.8-7.9 on the Richter scale, an earthquake called a megaquake, – he said. – We are talking about continuous movement, the fault plane is very tilted, and during the event we observe a horizontal displacement of the two sides of the fault. Two lithospheric plates moved relative to each other. In other words: it is as if Turkey has shifted in relation to the Arabian plate to the southwest.
How accurate this information is is a question. It is quite possible that the Italian seismologist was chasing a sensation…
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