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Feb 6, 2023, 17 tweets

#Earthquake (#deprem) possibly felt 34 sec ago in #Turkey. Felt it? Tell us via:
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⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!

👉#İstanbul (Yerel saat 19:35:47). Depremi hissettiniz mi? Deneyiminizi paylaşın:
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Gözlemleriniz, depremin etkisini anlamak için önemlidir.🙏

⚠Preliminary info: M5.5 #earthquake (#deprem) about 2 km SW of #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey) 4 min ago (local time 19:33:08). Updates at:
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#Earthquake (#deprem) confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M5.5 || 2 km SW of #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey) || 5 min ago (local time 19:33:08). Follow the thread for the updates👇

#Earthquake 2 km SW of #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey) 6 min ago (local time 19:33:08). Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyeswitnesses. Share your experience via:
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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).

🔔#Earthquake (#deprem) M5.5 occurred 2 km SW of #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey) 29 min ago (local time 19:33:08). More info at:
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#Earthquake 2 km SW of #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey) 32 min ago (local time 19:33:08). Updated map - Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyewitnesses. Share your experience:
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🕒 This is the 78th felt #earthquake in Central Turkey in the last 16 hours.

🔎 Map of background focal mechanisms:

ℹEvent wrap-up: today a M5.5 #earthquake (#deprem) hit #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey) at 19:33:08 local time (UTC 16:33:08). Shaking was felt over 600km by approximately 78M people in Turkey, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic and Lebanon.

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: 'Not felt in Konya, maybe wrong location shown.[…]' Felt the #earthquake too? Share your experience and read others' at:
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🔎 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 #Kuyulusebil (#Turkey): 03/10/1914 a M7.0 led to 4000 casualties, 19/04/1938 a M6.8 led to 155 casualties, and on 03/02/2002 a M6.5 led to 44 casualties.

❓ Can #earthquakes be predicted? No. Seismologists can estimate the probability of ground shaking due to #earthquakes in a time windows of decades. This is used by engineers to design safe buildings. Educational video by @EarthScope_sci👇

‼ No further info about this #earthquake will be displayed here. Find more at:
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