This article provides some excellent descriptions of & graphics about the #TurkeySyriaEarthquake.
To clarify, however, the "fissure opened up by the quake" near Tepehan village is not a fault scarp but a landslide.
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reuters.com/graphics/TURKE…
To clarify, however, the "fissure opened up by the quake" near Tepehan village is not a fault scarp but a landslide.
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reuters.com/graphics/TURKE…
Maps comparing the scale of the faults to other land masses can be startling - at ~250 km, the M7.8 seems very long!
That's the reality of large earthquakes. The longest known earthquake rupture was the 2004 M9.1 earthquake: 1500 km.
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tectonics.caltech.edu/outreach/highl…
That's the reality of large earthquakes. The longest known earthquake rupture was the 2004 M9.1 earthquake: 1500 km.
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tectonics.caltech.edu/outreach/highl…
In my head I have a catalog of nightmare scenarios on faults that I know will host large earthquakes.
I don't know when they will happen.
I don't know if I will be around to see them.
It's really hard to talk to people about them.
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I don't know when they will happen.
I don't know if I will be around to see them.
It's really hard to talk to people about them.
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People don't want to listen. They have more urgent problems than something that might not happen for 100 years.
Until it happens.
How do we make progress?
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Until it happens.
How do we make progress?
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