One of the longest ruptures discovered by scientists in the Mediterranean is nearly 200 miles long.
separately reported that two enormous cracks in the Earth’s crust had opened near the Turkish-Syrian border following the natural disaster.
According to researchers in the U.K., the longest of the two ruptures stretch nearly 200 miles in the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea. The second crack in the Earth’s surface stretches about 80 miles. Professor Tim Wright, who leads the team that discovered the two ruptures in the Mediterranean, told Space.com it is a common occurrence after such a powerful earthquake.
"The bigger the earthquake, the bigger the fault and the more it slips," Wright said. "This earthquake fault is one of the longest on record on the continents. Also very unusual to have two such large earthquakes happening within a few hours of each other."On Monday morning, astruck Pazarcik district, about 20 miles east of Kahramanmaras, and was followed that afternoon by a 7.
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