The Danish Geological Survey said today that a powerful earthquake that struck southern Turkey and neighboring Syria in the early morning, killing more than 1,000 people in the two countries, has been recorded as far as Greenland.
“Strong earthquakes in Turkey were clearly recorded on seismographs in Denmark and Greenland,” seismologist Tine Larsen told AFP.
Meanwhile, according to the European Seismological Center (EMSC), in the central part of Turkey at 12:24 (Greek time) there was a new strong earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale. The earthquake occurred 67 kilometers north, northeast of the city of Kahramanmaras and had a focal depth of 2 kilometers. For its part, the Turkish AFAD reported that the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.6.
The quake was felt across a wide geographic arc, and there were reports of strikes as far away as the Syrian capital Damascus.
Source: APE-MPE, AFP.
Source: Kathimerini
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