Get ready to rumble! :^) Thanks grey_whiskers! Ordinarily not a c-list topic, but I'll allow it. :^) Oh, and it's not Turkey, it's Turkiye. /rimshot
Posted on 02/05/2023 5:47:27 PM PST by grey_whiskers
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Turkey early on Monday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
and they’re both in which hemisphere?
Aftershock at 5.9 just now.
That’s a pretty big EQ!
Some perspective...
1999 Izmit Earthquake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake
On the 17th of August, 1999 at 3:01 AM local time, a catastrophic magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey, causing monumental damage and 17,127–18,373 deaths.
...and there shall be earthquakes in divers places.....
If we wanted to bomb Aleppo back to the stone age after the civil war it would set them back only about a week.
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Apparently Gaziantep Metro Area is 2 million.
Depends on your perspective regards Turkey.
Mine is that the whole country could be flushed since the current radical Muz regime took over.
With “Allies” like that we need no other enemies.
Rode out the 6.9 that hit Seattle several years ago. We were on the 34th floor of our 36-floor building. Rocking and rolling around. I was under my cubbie table, holding my right hand up and keeping my computer from hitting the floor.
Full moon pulls the faults…
bump
It was so powerful people in Israel felt it as over a 4 on the Richter scale
this is going to be horrible - massive destruction
Poor construction will be seen as daylight arrives. Now, in Syria, how can tell what was civil war distruction and new from the earthquake?
Just watched a video showing of CCTV showing over a minute of shaking.
Get ready to rumble! :^) Thanks grey_whiskers! Ordinarily not a c-list topic, but I'll allow it. :^) Oh, and it's not Turkey, it's Turkiye. /rimshot
This was a bad one. It’s now showing as a 7.8 and the destruction seems to be widespread and devastating.
Video on Lookner showed the quake going continuously for about a minute and a half.
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