Turkey is prone to earthquakes, but the tremors of Feb. 6 stand out as the nation's worst in decades.
The longer of the two ruptures stretches 190 miles 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 . The second crack, 80 miles long , opened during the second, somewhat milder 7.
More than 20,000 people have been reported dead, and many victims are likely still buried underneath rubble as rescue operations proceed slowly, especially on the Syrian side, which has been ravaged by armed conflicts for years. Since the earthquakes struck, satellites operated by governmental agencies as well as private companies have been assessing the damage., the earthquakes erupted along a fault line 11 miles 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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