A 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Monday devastated wide swaths of Turkey and Syria, killing thousands of people.
The quake hit at depth of 11 miles and was centered in southern Turkey, near the northern border of Syria, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“More aftershocks are certainly expected, given the size of the main shock,” Hatem said. “We expect aftershocks to continue in the coming days, weeks and months.”Researchers said the earthquake was a strike-slip quake, where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally. In this case, one plate moved west while the other moved east — jerking past each other to create the quake, Hatem said.ARE EARTHQUAKES COMMON IN THIS AREA?
Turkey was struck by another major earthquake in January 2020 — a magnitude 6.7 that caused significant damage in the eastern part of the country. In 1999, a 7.4 magnitude quake struck near Istanbul and killed an estimated 18,000 people.The earthquake was powerful — especially for a quake that hit on land. Typically, very strong earthquakes occur underwater, Margarita Segou, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey, said.
While new buildings in cities like Istanbul were designed with modern earthquake standards in mind, this area of southern Turkey has many older high-rise buildings, Jaiswal said. Rapid construction in Syria — plus years of war — may have also left structures vulnerable, researchers said.
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