“The Arabian plate is compressing the Anatolian plate and the Anatolian plate is geographically occupied by the Turkey. The slip occurred along the contact of the two plates where the fault is, namely the Anatolian plate. THE Turkey i.e. it was pushed westwards, towards the Aegean, slid about 3 meters» explains the seismologist, Gerasimos Papadopoulosspeaking of him earthquake which cost thousands of lives in Syria and Turkey.
As he said speaking in the First Program the deadly earthquake resulted in Turkey moving 3 meters closer to our country.
Mr. Papadopoulos, speaking on her show ERT, did not rule out the possibility that the North Anatolia fault was activated after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. “The movement of lithospheric plates is continuous. From this movement came the break in the fault and the earthquake. And precisely because we have this movement, it is not excluded that the pressure, the trends as we say, will also be transmitted to the North Anatolian fault. There is a possibility because the phenomena are complex, they do not follow strict rules” he explained.
Source: News Beast
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