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One of the most violent earthquakes in Turkey since 1668

2023-02-06T16:31:37.300Z


The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred between Turkey and Syria in the night between 5 and 6 February is the fourth most violent recorded in those areas since 1668 (ANSA)


The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred between Turkey and Syria in the night between 5 and 6 February is the fourth most violent recorded in those areas since 1668.

In fact, in that year, Turkey was shaken by two violent earthquakes :

the first, of magnitude 7.8, arrived in July and caused an estimated number of victims between 5,000 and 10,000;

the second, of magnitude 8, killed about 8,000 people in mid-August.

For Syria, a comparable earthquake dates back to 1202, with an estimated magnitude of 7.6.


At an international level, earthquakes of this intensity are naturally relevant, but they are preceded by the very long list of earthquakes of magnitude 8 and 9, up to the most violent ever recorded, that of magnitude between 9.4 and 9.6 which occurred in 1960 in Chile.


    There have been 14 violent earthquakes of a magnitude equal to or greater than 9 that have occurred in the world since 1604, when Alaska was shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 9.2;

however, the strongest ever recorded was the one that on 22 May 1960 shook Chile, in Valdivia, with a magnitude between 9.4 and 9.4 and which caused a tsunami that reached the coasts of Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, those eastern New Zealand, southeastern Australia and the Aleutian Islands.


    Of the tremors of magnitude 8 or greater, 31 have been recorded so far.

The most violent of which occurred in the 1700s in the Pacific, with an estimated magnitude of at least 8.7.

The most violent earthquake recorded in Turkey also belongs to this second group, that of August 1668 which had struck Anatolia, the same area in which the earth shook today.


    Turkey and Syria are also present in the ranking of earthquakes that have claimed the most victims in history: 250,000 were estimated when the earth shook in Turkey in 526 and 530,000 those of the earthquake that shook Syria a few years later, in 533.


Meeting point of three continental plates and crossed by two major faults,

Turkey is a country with a high seismic risk and in its history there have been dozens of earthquakes of magnitude equal to or greater than 7. In the 1900s there were 13 and the one that occurred today is the third of the 21st century, after that of magnitude 7, 2 of 2011 and that of magnitude 7 of 2020.


Source: ansa

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