The Turkish seismologists are divided on the continuation of the seismic behavior of the Constantinople region and the Marmara Sea, after the strong 6.2 Richter earthquake on Wednesday, April 23. Several seismologists, most notably the widely known Naji Giorur, express the view that this earthquake is a “precursor” of the large 7.2 -magnitude earthquake expected in the same area and will release ten times more energy – perhaps more on a logarithmic scale if the latter is strong. It is noted that the seismologists divide the northern branch of the section of the northern Anatolia rift passing through the Marmara Sea into three pieces. The eastern part is the one that gave the great 7.4 -magnitude earthquake in the Gulf of Nicomedia in 1999, the western part that reaches the Gulf of Xiros in Eastern Thrace and coming out to the North Aegean, had given a similar magnitude earthquake in 1912, while […]
Source: News Beast
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