Everyone has a big surprise and a lot of question marks about what happened on February 6. Although this chain of earthquakes affects almost half of the country, It was felt even in Egypt, It shows how wide the impact area of ​​the earthquake is.

Recently, an animation was even shared showing how the expanding seismic waves reached America. This raises the question of how these earthquakes affect large areas.

According to the Danish Geological Institute, the quakes in our country even reached Greenland.

Kahramanmaraş and Greenland are too genius to normally be mentioned in the same sentence. two unrelated geographies. Greenland is one of the land masses closest to the North Pole.

To understand the answer to our question, we need to briefly and concisely discuss how earthquakes form.

Under the earth’s crust, in pieces “plate” There are continents called continents. Between these plates are faults that we call “fault lines”.

Earthquakes, on the other hand, are oscillations that occur when the energy accumulated in the faults we call “fault lines” under the plates is suddenly released. This energy release is usually by rubbing against each other or fault lines overload that’s how it happens.

Almost every major landmass and continent on Earth has its own plate. Equally gigantic fault lines between these gigantic plates. occurs. As the plates rub against each other over time, small fault lines arises.

An earthquake can shake more than one region, depending on the accumulated energy.

Let’s remember the little fault lines we talked about earlier. These small fault lines, as you will notice, cover a large part of our country, but also between continents. they are connected by huge fault lines. For this reason, it is possible for an earthquake to trigger another earthquake in the same country or to shake an entire region at the same time.

In addition, depending on whether these errors are long or short, respectively more and less destructive earthquakes can occur. Because shorter fault lines are narrower, there isn’t much room for energy to escape. Longer fault lines can actually release more energy, and if they are long enough it can even reach the massive fault lines we just talked about.

Therefore, the energy released in an earthquake in Kahramanmaraş and its surroundings depends on its strength and these fault lines. use it like a highway It could affect half of our country and some neighboring countries, and the tremors could reach as far as Greenland.

In addition, the power released in some earthquakes also varies according to the energy released close to or far from the surface of the Earth’s crust.

near the surface Although earthquakes are more destructive, the effect and damage potential of the earthquake decreases with distance from the surface.

The reason for this is that earthquakes close to the surface prevent them. fewer obstacles and therefore less energy consumption. For this reason, most of this energy is charged on the surface of the Earth’s crust and fractures near the surface.

February 6, 2023 earthquakes 10 provinces in totalin terms of population, according to the data about 13 million Impressed. While these earthquakes occurred at a depth of 7 kilometers on the surface, the 1999 Gölcük earthquake occurred at a depth of 17 kilometers on the surface. According to these data, we can conclude that the earthquakes of February 6, 2023 have a more destructive power.

• Sources: Reuters, AFAD