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After Turkey and Syria were hit by strong earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5 at 4:17 am on February 6, they were located in Hatay, Turkey, at the border with Syria. At 8:04 pm yesterday (20th) ( Around 1:04 AM Taiwan time) another earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 occurred. According to a Archyde.com report, following the Turkey earthquake, a 300-kilometer large crack almost the length of Taiwan’s territory and a shorter crack were torn at the border between Turkey and Syria, giving way to almost all Turkish towns on the earthquake belt. Torn apart.
Archyde.com reported that following a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 and repeated followingshocks in Turkey on the 6th, the ground in southern Turkey and northern Syria was torn apart. Because the direction of the split was different, the surface changed greatly, and the land moved 7 kilometers in the opposite direction. regarding feet. Villagers in Tepehan village in Hatay province witnessed unusual cracks caused by the tearing of the ground surface.
“These are very large and powerful earthquakes that have ruptured along a long chain of fault segments,” Eric Fielding, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said on the agency’s Earth Observatory website. to the surface”. Eric Fielding even believes the magnitude 7.8 quake has a rupture length and magnitude similar to the one that devastated San Francisco in 1906.
Archyde.com even described the impact of the earthquake on the landscape as “cities and cities are torn apart” in Hatay Province, Turkey.
Roger Musen, an honorary researcher at the British Geological Survey, said that the earthquake opened two huge cracks on the earth’s surface, the longer one spanning regarding 300 kilometers in southern Turkey. the length of Korea or Portugal”.
Earlier, people posted a topographic map of straight cracks on Twitter (as shown in the link below), which proved to be a large ravine in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, China. The location is not in Hatay Province, Turkey, nor is it the Turkish-Syrian alliance. A new landform caused by an earthquake.
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