The strength of the first magnitude 7.8 earthquake that made tremble Turkey and Syria and which has caused thousands of deaths it was such that even the Greenland seismographs picked it up.
This is indicated by the Danish seismologist Tine Larsen, who confirmed to la Sexta that the strong tremors in Turkey “were clearly recorded by the seismographs in Denmark and Greenland.”
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) collected a first earthquake of magnitude 7.8 around 04:17 (01:17 GMT) with its epicenter in the Turkish town of Pazarcik, at a depth of 17.9 kilometers.
So “approximately” five minutes later that the tremor began “the earthquake waves came to the seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm,” Larsen detailed in an email from the Geological Institute of Denmark.
“Eight minutes after the earthquake, the tremor reached the east coast of Greenland and spread throughout Greenland,” it added. The island of Greenland is located in the North Atlantic and is located more than 5,000 kilometers from the place where the earthquake originated
In any case, the seismologist specifies, and to avoid confusion, no one in Greenland felt the tremor: “Earthquakes were only recorded by seismographs, not by people,” she points out.
Source: Lasexta
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