Earthquakes in Turkey: “Aftershocks can last more than time – We expect a strong tremor in the Sea of ​​Marmara”

The deadly earthquakes that claimed thousands of lives in Turkey and Syria they also made Greece worry while at the same time they caused discussions about whether it will also be shaken in the near future.

At the “table” of experts, the analyzes began on the seismic activity that continues in our neighboring country and on the factors that made the tremors so deadly.

Reassuring for Greece is, speaking to Newsbeast, the professor emeritus of Geology of the Greek National University of Athens, former president of the Organization for Earthquake Planning and Protection and former general secretary of Civil Protection, Dimitris Papanikolaou explaining how earthquakes in Turkey were caused by the eastern Anatolian fault while our country is basically affected by the northern Anatolian fault. However, referring to the aftershocks that our neighbors are facing, he points out that they will continue for months and even for over a whole year.

Focusing on Arabia, the emeritus professor of Geology of the EKPA and former president of the OASP explains that for several million years it has been moving like a “piston” and “hitting” Anatolia.

“Above this zone we have the activation of these large earthquakes which continues southwest towards Cyprus. So if one is waiting for where this activity can be transmitted and moved, the two areas that can be done are either to the southwest i.e. Alexandretta which has already been hit to the southwest i.e. Cyprus, i.e. south of the pentadactyl and reach as far south in general of Famagusta or from the opposite side towards Erzurum towards the north-east, i.e. Turkey as has already happened because we already have two parts of the fault zone that were activated” he says in closing.