The Russian space agency “Roskosmos” has published satellite images revealing fault lines caused by Turkey’s devastating earthquake, Al Arabiya reported.
And the agency stated in a post via “Telegram”, today, Sunday, that it continues to monitor the consequences of the earthquake in southeastern Turkey, and attached a current image of the earthquake-stricken area to another taken by the “Resource-B” satellite in July 2021.
She said the image taken by Roscosmos’ Kanopus-V satellite is of Hatay Airport following a series of earthquakes.
I also published another picture of a large crack and compared it to a picture of the same area taken in 2021, where the difference appears in the two pictures and the crack caused by the earthquake.
In a related context, on the eleventh of this month, Turkish media reported that a giant crack 400 meters long, 200 meters wide, and 50 meters deep was formed in Hatay province, southeastern Turkey.
In turn, the head of the Risk Reduction Department of the Emergency and Disaster Management Department in Turkey, Orhan Tatar, announced that the earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey on February 6 is similar, from a practical point of view, to the explosion of 500 atomic bombs.
Experts had said earlier that the massive earthquakes that struck Turkey on Monday caused a massive change in the tectonic plates on which Turkey is located, as it pushed the country to the west by three metres.
While meteorologists revealed that the 140-mile (225 km) extension of the rift between the Anatolian plate and the Arabian plate has been ruptured, as the country is located on the main fault lines that border the Anatolian plate, the Arabian plate, and the Eurasian plate.
