3 hours agoEuropean States that are seriously more threatened by earthquakes
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(5 years ago)According to a map drafted by EU researchers, Balkan and Mediterranean countries, as well as Turkey, are more exposed to earthquakes than many other parts of Europe, according to the EU Research and Development magazine Horizon. Researchers on the EU-funded US project have produced a map showing which [...]
Researchers on the EU-funded US project have produced a map showing which parts of Europe are most endangered.
This shows how the most endangered countries are Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
“Europe has a long history of devastating earthquakes”, Professor Domenico Giardini, co-ordinator of the SAR project, told Horizon.
“All of us remember the tragic events, Izmir (Turkey) in 1999 and L'Aquile (Italy) in 2009”, He added, writes Express.co.uk.
In Izmir a strong quake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale killed 17,000 people, while in L'Aquila an average earthquake measuring 5.9 killed more than 300 people and destroyed most of the city.
Why is seismic activity the highest in Mediterranean countries?
Josip Stipčević, a geophysician from the Faculty of Sciences in Zagreb, explains that the greatest possibility of very strong earthquakes in Europe and the Mediterranean is in Turkey and Greece.
This is about tectonics and geodynamics in the area”, he says.
Because it is the Anatolian plaque, which slides along the Eurasian tablet in the north, turns south and the Aegean Sea, and somehow crushes the oceanic lithosphere in the Mediterranean, which is the only remaining thing from the vast Tethyas Ocean that once existed in the area.
In Italy, the situation is similar, with the cause of all earthquakes in Italy the popular Adriatic microplata (Adria), which is the main cause of earthquakes in the area in Italy, meaning that the sinking of one plaque below” occurs.
