a few seconds agoA 7.8-strong strike that killed 30 thousand people, which are the strongest earthquakes in Turkey
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The deadly quake that struck Turkey on Monday morning, which was felt in Syria, Lebanon and Israel, was as strong as the one in 1939, the most powerful ever recorded in Turkey. With magnitude 7.8, Monday's earthquake in Turkey had the same shock force as the quakes of 1939 [...]
With a score of 7.8, Monday's earthquake in Turkey had the same impact force in 1939, where it killed 30,000 people, wrote at Titter Stephen Hicks, a seismology researcher at Imperial College in London.
Turkey, a hearth of seismic activity, is located on the Anadol Plaka, which borders on two large cracks.
Earth's impact over two decades has caused fatal destruction.
October 2020
An earthquake of Magnitude 7 near Samos, a Greek island on the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, killed at least 24 people in Turkey and caused more casualties in Greece.
January 2020
An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude hit eastern Turkey, killing at least 22 people, wounding hundreds and causing shocks in Syria, Georgia and Armenia.
October 2011
An earthquake of 7.2 Magnitude in eastern Turkey killed at least 138 people and injured about 350. The quake was based in Van province, not far from the Iran border, and felt strongly in surrounding villages and parts of northern Iraq.
March 2010
An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude also struck eastern Turkey, killing 51 people. One village was destroyed mainly, and four others were severely damaged. A second quake of 5.6 magnitude then struck the same area, amid dozens of afternoons.
August 1999
An earthquake of 7.4 Magnitude that hit the western Turkish city of Izmi killed more than 17,000 people.
