Two major earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş, which occurred on February 6, 9 hours apart, caused great destruction in an area covering 10 provinces. At the same time, the intensity of the earthquake showed itself with the crevices formed in the ground up to kilometers long.
Two of these rifts were on the fault line and are hundreds of kilometers long. The longest rift is 300 kilometers long and stretches from Hatay to Malatya. Reuters has positioned these rifts in different regions to tell the world how big the two rifts are.
This is what two slits formed on the surface would look like in other countries:
If the cracks formed on fault lines in earthquakes were in the USA, they would extend from one extreme to the other in the state of Florida. If it were in England, from London to Manchester; If it was in Taiwan and Sri Lanka it would have split the whole country in two.
These rifts also offer important data for preparing for future earthquakes:
Professor Tim Wright shared that the cracks formed on the surface provide valuable data about the earthquake, and that in the long term, these data will provide information on how infrastructures, bridges and roads will be affected by earthquakes.
Earthquake does not kill, neglect does.
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