
The media in Turkey have revealed footage of the ground cracking over a kilometer length due to Monday's powerful earthquakes. Orhan Tatar, the General Director of Earthquake Risk and Reduction of AFAD, has recently spoken about this phenomenon.
In a press conference, Tatar said that the earthquakes have caused damage to an area of 110,000 square kilometers, almost 4 times the area of Albania. He emphasized that the recent earthquakes have a formation mechanism much different from the past earthquakes, since the two powerful earthquakes occurred at a short time distance from each other, the first was 7.8 on the Richter scale, while the second was 7. 5 Richter.
Orhan Tatar said that the earth's crust has undergone a deformation of 3-4 meters, in a distance of 400 kilometers, at a depth of approximately 8 to 10 kilometers.
For Tatar, the recent earthquakes in Turkey have been among the most powerful to hit the land, not the sea. He emphasized that the aftershocks will last for a long time, since the two big shocks were over 7 on the Richter scale.