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The February 6 earthquake in southeastern Turkey is comparable to the explosion of 500 nuclear bombs, Orhan Tatar, head of the Turkish Emergency Management Department (AFAD), told reporters.
According to the Anadolu agency, Tatar said that the duration of the first earthquake was 65 seconds. The second earthquake had a devastating effect for 45 seconds. “The region shook violently for about 2 minutes. The energy released as a result of an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 is equivalent to the energy from 500 atomic bombs,” the official stressed.
Earlier, Turkish geophysicist Ahmet Ercan, in an interview with the Duvar newspaper, also compared the earthquake to the explosion of hundreds of nuclear bombs. According to him, powerful aftershocks can occur within a radius of 200 km from the epicenter in the next two to three years.
Recall that the earthquake that occurred in Turkey and Syria on February 6 was the largest in the region in recent years and claimed the lives of more than 22 thousand people.
Source: Rosbalt
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