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Feb 6, 2023, 11 tweets

🔔#Earthquake (#deprem) M5.2 occurred 17 km SW of #Gürün (#Turkey) 55 min ago (local time 05:03:52). More info at:
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#Earthquake 17 km SW of #Gürün (#Turkey) 56 min ago (local time 05:03:52). Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyewitnesses. Share your experience:
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Earthquakes may happen anytime: what to do during the shaking?
🠪 INSIDE: take shelter, keep away from windows.
🠪 OUTSIDE: stay away from anything that might collapse (bridges, roofs, electrical wires).

ℹEvent wrap-up: today a M5.2 #earthquake (#deprem) hit #Doğanşehir (#Turkey) at 05:03:38 local time (UTC 02:03:38). Shaking was felt over 600km by approximately 66M people in Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey and Syria.

ℹ Aftershocks may occur in the next hours/days. Unless it is necessary, stay away from damaged areas for your safety 🙏 Be careful and follow national authorities' information.

🗨Eyewitnesses are saying: '1st time we all were awake, everything was shaking hardly[…]' Felt the #earthquake too? Share your experience and read others' at:
📱emsc-csem.org/service/applic…
🌐m.emsc.eu/?id=1218488

🔎 Regional instrumental seismicity in Central Turkey. The colored dots represent the #earthquakes that have struck the region [using @ISCseism catalog -1960 to 2020- and @EMSC data -from 2021 onwards]:

🔎 Deadliest #earthquakes that occurred in recent years within 300km of #Besni (#Turkey): 13/03/1992 a M6.8 led to 652 casualties, 20/03/1945 a M5.7 led to 300 casualties, and on 08/03/2010 a M6.0 led to 51 casualties.

❓Do you have an #earthquake prediction? The Collaboratory for the Study of #Earthquake Predictability(scec.org/research/proje…) accepts predictions & evaluates them. Careful though: saying you did predict after the #earthquake happens means nothing😉

❗Update:
#Earthquake (#deprem) M5.5 occurred 19 km NW of #Besni (#Turkey) 1hr 49min ago (local time 05:03:35). Info at:
📱emsc-csem.org/service/applic…
🌐m.emsc.eu/?id=1218488
🖥emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/ear…

‼ No further info about this #earthquake will be displayed here. Find more at:
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🌐m.emsc.eu/?id=1218488
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