Posted on 02/10/2023 4:31:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
Two enormous cracks in Earth's crust opened near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes shook the region on Monday (Feb. 6), killing over 20,000 people.
Researchers from the U.K. Centre for the Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET) found the ruptures by comparing images of the area near the Mediterranean Sea coast taken by the European Earth-observing satellite Sentinel-1 before and after the devastating earthquakes.
The longer of the two ruptures stretches 190 miles (300 kilometers) in the northeastern direction from the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea. The crack was created by the first of the two major tremors that hit the region on Monday, the more powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck at 4:17 a.m. local time (8:17 p.m. EST on Feb. 5). The second crack, 80 miles long (125 km), opened during the second, somewhat milder 7.5-magnitude temblor about nine hours later...
Such ruptures appear commonly after powerful earthquakes, professor Tim Wright, who leads the COMET team, told Space.com in an email. These two fissures, however, are unusually long, a testament to the enormous amount of energy the earthquakes unleashed.
The movement of the tectonic plates that caused the earthquakes was such that the cracks are clearly visible on the surface, running through towns and in some cases directly through buildings.
Since the earthquakes struck, satellites operated by governmental agencies as well as private companies have been assessing the damage. According to NASA(opens in new tab), the earthquakes erupted along a fault line 11 miles (18 km) below the surface. This shallow depth, NASA said in the statement, meant tremors propagated with vicious force, spreading hundreds of miles away from the epicenter.
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Wow! That’s a pretty long fissure.
The death toll is now 20,000 plus. There was no place for these people to escape to as the buildings all collapsed around them. It was cold with snow on the ground and the middle of the night. They will probably be finding bodies for some time to come.
God Bless their Souls!
That’s such a tragedy. I can’t imagine the hardship those poor people are enduring.
Quakes in the region have a habit of cascading westward along other faults, IIRC. This is not really over.
I find it puzzling that the news on TV has continuously relegated this story to the end of their telecasts behind Congressional hearings and “Balloon news” which keeps repeating itself over and over again. It seems to me that when 25000 people lose their lives in an enormous disaster that it should be the “Top” of the news. I realize it is halfway around the world in two foreign nations, but doesn’t a tragedy that enormous merit the number one headline? Help me if I am wrong.
Yes.
A glimpse of doom: Istanbul’s earthquakes in history
https://www.echoturkey.com/op-ed/a-glimpse-of-doom-istanbuls-earthquakes-in-history/
Turkey’s earthquake is a warning for Istanbul, which would face even more deaths from a quake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turkey-death-toll-building-structures-1.6741119
Just like the 1964 Alaska Good Friday earthquake and countless others this occured on Full Moon. Just a coincidence I’m sure…
Where’s the Clinton foundation?? Where’s the Facebook banners? Where’s the donation drives? Where’s the president asking us to skip blankets and water and just send our cash? I guess people care a lot more about Haiti than Turkey. Almost zero media coverage.
Pretty weird.
It’s important on just how the sunlight is reflected off of the moon.
The entire tragedy has fallen off the front pages of all the major news-sites. Now you have to actively search for information. I know that all the usual western countries have sent rescue teams and other assistance, but it will be decades before the country recovers from this earthquake. And given the current incompetence of most institutions who will be worried that any assistance is based upon D.I.E. principles any major assistance will be slow to appear.
Gone are the days that a rapid response team of competent personnel can be assembled and deployed to set up assistance centers.
Of course you are right, but the left’s agendas always come first, and this earthquake does not advance leftist agendas.
Well, there is this...
Highly-skilled LA County rescue team heading to Turkey to help with recovery efforts
https://abc7.com/la-county-rescue-team-relief-efforts-for-turkey-recovery-in-turkish-consulate-los-angeles/12778167/
Whoa!
Btw, Jeff Flake is the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. I believe I read he is over there, was over there when the earthquake hit.
Too bad we can’t get a fissure like that on our southern border...less the death and destruction of course.
Fault!!!
Probably just coincidence; there’s probably as many as fell on the first of the month or the 23rd or whatever.
If there is a lunar influence, it should happen at the moon’s nearest approach - its perigee. I took a look and the last perigee was on 1/21/23 (and will recur every 29 days or so). As it happens, it was the closest perigee on a new moon since the middle ages.
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/lunar-perigee-apogee.html
Was he appointed by Biden? Must be hard to be a Mormon working in a predominantly Muslim country. Hope he’s struggling to exist there. It’s called Karma.
Yep
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