🕒 This is the 13th felt #earthquake in Eastern Turkey in the last 11 hours.
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 M5.7 #earthquake (#deprem) hit #Malatya (#Turkey) at 13:51:32 local time (UTC 10:51:32). Shaking was felt over 600km by approximately 74M people in Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Georgia, Iraq and Syrian Arab Republic.
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.
❓ Magnitude = Intensity? Nope! An #earthquake has only ONE value of magnitude but SEVERAL values of intensity, which can vary from place to place. In particular, the intensity decreases as we get away from the #earthquake👇
🔎 Regional instrumental seismicity in Eastern 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 #Malatya (#Turkey): 26/12/1939 a M7.8 led to 32700 casualties, 13/03/1992 a M6.8 led to 652 casualties, and on 20/03/1945 a M5.7 led to 300 casualties.
#Earthquake (#deprem) confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M5.0 || 5 km S of #Göksun (#Turkey) || 15 min ago (local time 23:43:59). Follow the thread for the updates👇
#Earthquake (#deprem) confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M5.0 || 6 km W of #Göksun (#Turkey) || 11 min ago (local time 23:14:11). Follow the thread for the updates👇
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).
👉#İstanbul (Yerel saat 23:08:45). Depremi hissettiniz mi? Deneyiminizi paylaşın:
🌐m.emsc.eu
Gözlemleriniz, depremin etkisini anlamak için önemlidir.🙏
Eyewitnesses reported shaking in #Turkey 10 min ago (local time 23:08:45)⚠
At present, we have no seismic data confirming this crowdsourced detection.❗
More info soon!