It was only a matter of time before the region surrounding Turkey and Syria experienced 'the big one,' according to experts.
February 19, 2023, 9:36 AMFamilies of victims stand as rescue officials search among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Feb. 9, 2023, three days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey.It was only a matter of time before the region surrounding Turkey and Syria experienced "the big one," according to experts.
In this March 29, 1964, file photo, cliffside homes lie in ruins in the Turnagin residential section of Anchorage, Alaska. Up to 50 of these homes were destroyed when a cliff crumbled and slipped into Cook Inlet during the earthquake that struck late March 27.The complex tectonic activity that lies beneath essentially ensured that a devastatingly strong earthquake would eventually rock the region, the scientists said.
"That stress is essentially squeezing Turkey out to the west into the Aegean," Alexander Stewart, a professor of geology at St. Lawrence University, told ABC News.Picture a banana being squeezed out from between the peels, and that is essentially how Turkey is being exuded out into the Aegean Sea as a result of the plate interactions, Stewart said.
Although the earthquake had a significant magnitude, the readings, which measures the amplitude of the wave forms, or how much fault is moving, on the seismograph don't tell the full story of the strength of the earthquake.The earthquake involved a break on fault extended for 300 kilometers, or more than 186 miles, Susan Hough, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, told ABC News.
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