Today, Thursday 17/10, the president of OASP and professor of Geology, Efthimios Lekkas, spoke about the earthquake that occurred yesterday in our neighboring Turkey. “Yesterday’s earthquake in Turkey does not mean anything for Greece, there is not a single scientist in the whole world who does not think that a big earthquake will happen in Istanbul” underlined in particular the president of OASP and professor of Geology, Efthymios Lekkas, speaking to “Connections” program of ERT, noted: “There have been more than 100 earthquakes after the 5.9 Richter earthquake. Essentially to be understood, this earthquake occurred in the extension of the fault of the second earthquake in Kahramanmaras which has a northeast-southwest direction. That is, it happened in the remaining part of the fault, which had not broken.” “In Kahramanmaras the earthquake was of the order of 7.6. It was preceded by the earthquake in Antioch with a magnitude of 7.8, within a few hours these two large earthquakes occurred. They are essentially in the same area, but the important thing is that […]
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