Severe Earthquake in Turkey Today

[Bill]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...ad-2023-02-06/

LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday is likely to be one of the deadliest this decade, seismologists said, with a more than 100 km (62 miles) rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian plates.

Here is what scientists said happened beneath the earth's surface and what to expect in the aftermath:
WHERE DID THE EARTHQUAKE ORIGINATE?

The epicentre was about 26 km east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi at a depth of about 18 km on the East Anatolian Fault. The quake radiated towards the northeast, bringing devastation to central Turkey and Syria.
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During the 20th century, the East Anatolian Fault yielded little major seismic activity. "If we were going simply by (major) earthquakes that were recorded by seismometers, it would look more or less blank," said Roger Musson, an honorary research associate at the British Geological Survey.

Only three earthquakes have registered above 6.0 on the Richter Scale since 1970 in the area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But in 1822, a 7.0 quake hit the region, killing an estimated 20,000 people.
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HOW BAD WAS THIS EARTHQUAKE?

On average, there are fewer than 20 quakes over 7.0 magnitude in any year, making Monday's event severe.

Compared with the 6.2 earthquake that hit central Italy in 2016 and killed some 300 people, the Turkey-Syria earthquake released 250 times as much energy, according to Joanna Faure Walker, head of the University College London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.

Only two of the deadliest earthquakes from 2013 to 2022 were of the same magnitude as Monday's quake.
WHY WAS IT SO SEVERE?

The East Anatolian Fault is a strike-slip fault.

In those, solid rock plates are pushing up against each other across a vertical fault line, building stress until one finally slips in a horizontal motion, releasing a tremendous amount of strain that can trigger an earthquake.

The San Andreas Fault in California is perhaps the world's most famous strike-slip fault, with scientists warning that a catastrophic quake is long overdue.

The initial rupture for the Turkey-Syria earthquake kicked off at a relatively shallow depth.

"The shaking at the ground surface will have been more severe than for a deeper earthquake of the same magnitude at source," David Rothery, a planetary geoscientist at the Open University in Britain, said.
WHAT KIND OF AFTERSHOCKS CAN BE EXPECTED?

Eleven minutes after the initial quake, the region was hit by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. A 7.5-magnitude quake came hours later, followed by another 6.0 spasm in the afternoon.

"What we are seeing now is the activity is spreading to neighbouring faults," said Musson. "We expect seismicity to continue for a while."

After the deadly 1822 event, aftershocks carried on into the following year.
WHAT MIGHT THE FINAL DEATH TOLL BE?

Earthquakes of similar magnitudes in populated areas have killed thousands of people. Nepal's 7.8-magnitude earthquake in 2015 claimed nearly 9,000 lives.

"It's not going to be good," said Musson. "It will be in the thousands, and could be in the tens of thousands."

Cold winter weather, he added, means that people trapped under rubble have less chance at survival.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

That’ll curl your snood.

[Aerovette]

Have they blamed climate change yet?

[Frankie the Fink]

Trump's fault obviously but its OK, Kamala will fly to Venezuela to find the root cause.

I was stationed in Turkey in the 70's and they helped the US with intelligence missions and are one tough bunch of people - they're residential/commercial construction ? Not so much...prob a lot of buildings just couldn't take it.

[Chemtrails99]

Now we see the damage caused by their Systemic Racism. Nothing 400 or 500 Billion US Dollars can't cure.

[Mike Mercury]

they got nailed good. The two main quakes were centered at a depth of 5-6 miles; that causes significant surface damage.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

Trump's fault obviously but its OK, Kamala will fly to Venezuela to find the root cause.

I was stationed in Turkey in the 70's and they helped the US with intelligence missions and are one tough bunch of people - they're residential/commercial construction ? Not so much...prob a lot of buildings just couldn't take it.

My first thought. I have seen what they do in Mexico. It would be humorous if it wasn't so dangerous.

[Wathen1955]

June 28, 1992.

I was with my wife and 2 kids (7yrs and 5 yrs old) camping just below Big Bear in Southern CA when at 5am, Landers got hit with a 7.3 quake. Since we were sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags, this woke me and my wife up and the kids.

Trying to go back to sleep was impossible due to the thousands of after shocks. The ground felt like it was on marbles rolling back and forth. At this point, I decided to get up and make breakfast, and told the wife that we should probably finish breakfast, pack the car and the kids, and head back home since the ground was still shaking all this time.

About 8am, we were almost finished and ready to leave. I decided to take a leak before we drive off. After leaving the restroom and heading back to the car, the second quake hit. A 6.3. Since I was walking at the time, it threw me to the ground. As I knelt on the ground, I can hear the pine trees singing - they sounded like tuning forks. After about 15 seconds, the quake stopped, and I could hear rock slides all around us, and some people screaming. NOT GOOD!

As I checked to make sure everyone was okay at the campsite, we finished packing the car, but were stopped by a Sheriff, telling us that we can't go anywhere due to the rock slides. He said he would come back in about 2 hours or so. A little after 10am, he comes back and says that we can drive out only through Big Bear. We would have to dodge boulders that were on the 2 lane highway.

Once we got to Big Bear, we saw all the damage from the quake. From here in Big Bear, we had to take the long way back home to Hemet, as all the other routes were closed.

This was the strongest quake that I've felt ever. Never want to go through another one like that.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...ock-california

[Chemtrails99]

Originally Posted by Wathen1955

June 28, 1992.

I was with my wife and 2 kids (7yrs and 5 yrs old) camping just below Big Bear in Southern CA when at 5am, Landers got hit with a 7.3 quake. Since we were sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags, this woke me and my wife up and the kids.

Trying to go back to sleep was impossible due to the thousands of after shocks. The ground felt like it was on marbles rolling back and forth. At this point, I decided to get up and make breakfast, and told the wife that we should probably finish breakfast, pack the car and the kids, and head back home since the ground was still shaking all this time.

About 8am, we were almost finished and ready to leave. I decided to take a leak before we drive off. After leaving the restroom and heading back to the car, the second quake hit. A 6.3. Since I was walking at the time, it threw me to the ground. As I knelt on the ground, I can hear the pine trees singing - they sounded like tuning forks. After about 15 seconds, the quake stopped, and I could hear rock slides all around us, and some people screaming. NOT GOOD!

As I checked to make sure everyone was okay at the campsite, we finished packing the car, but were stopped by a Sheriff, telling us that we can't go anywhere due to the rock slides. He said he would come back in about 2 hours or so. A little after 10am, he comes back and says that we can drive out only through Big Bear. We would have to dodge boulders that were on the 2 lane highway.

Once we got to Big Bear, we saw all the damage from the quake. From here in Big Bear, we had to take the long way back home to Hemet, as all the other routes were closed.

This was the strongest quake that I've felt ever. Never want to go through another one like that.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...ock-california

I remember that one, I was in Riverside. It hit pretty hard there too. I walked out into my apartment parking lot and every antenna on every car was waving the same way at the same time. I was awake and first out, got to see a good number of my neighbors naked for few minutes as they came screaming out of their places. Had a bunch of friends in BB we went up and helped clean up later.

[Bill]

[ratflinger]

It was the will of Allah - so STFU!

[theandies]

You know I really don't give a shit one way or the other. I know that's mean and all but I really don't care. When something like this happens in other parts of the world our government, without consulting "We the People" just give our hard earned tax money to these shithole countries but when something happens here we hear silence from the rest of the world. Then I hear about our homeless problems etc. at home and we do nothing about it. I think our money would be better spent to help OUR citizens.
I say each country take care of themselves like we do after a natural disaster.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by theandies

You know I really don't give a shit one way or the other. I know that's mean and all but I really don't care. When something like this happens in other parts of the world our government, without consulting "We the People" just give our hard earned tax money to these shithole countries but when something happens here we hear silence from the rest of the world. Then I hear about our homeless problems etc. at home and we do nothing about it. I think our money would be better spent to help OUR citizens.
I say each country take care of themselves like we do after a natural disaster.

The last time I felt like any other country gave a shit about us was during 9/11.