Turkey hit by one other 6.4 magnitude earthquake weeks after lethal tremors

6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Turkey’s southern Hatay province, mentioned the nation’s catastrophe company.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 20, 2023 23:20 IST

Aerial picture reveals the destruction in Hatay, southern Turkey, within the aftermath of the February 6 earthquake. (Photo: AP)

By India Today Web Desk: As the Turkish authorities continues the rescue operation of individuals trapped below the buildings flattened by the unprecedented earthquakes which hit the nation two weeks in the past, one other 6.4 magnitude tremor struck the nation’s southern Hatay province on late Monday night, in response to the catastrophe company.

This comes after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake with its epicenter in Turkey’s southeastern Kahramanmaras province struck within the early hours of February 6, adopted by over 40 aftershocks burying hundreds below the rubble of flattened buildings in Turkey and neighbouring Syria.

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As rescue operations proceed, considerations are rising over the potential unfold of an infection in quake-hit areas.

Italian seismologist Professor Carlo Doglioni claimed that Turkey, as per estimates, has truly slipped by 5 to 6 meters in comparison with Syria after the horizontal sliding of the 2 plates that brought on the magnitude 7.8 quake within the two neighboring nations. The violent earthquake was brought on by the Anatolian plate transferring in the direction of the Southwest with respect to the Arabica plate.

The President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Professor Doglioni, mentioned that the 2 earthquakes 7.8 and seven.2 on the Richter scale respectively, had been a part of a single seismic sequence unleashed on the intersection of 4 plates that collide repeatedly — Anatolian, Arabica, Eurasian and African.

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Feb 20, 2023