The two earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.6 that shook SE Turkey on Monday have raised the Anatolian peninsula by 10 meters, according to Italian seismologist Alessandro Amato, of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). For his part, Professor Shinji Toda, from the International Institute for Scientific Disaster Research at Tohoku University in Japan, explained that the main 7.8 quake, which could be felt even in Greenland, was “one of the largest inland earthquakes ever recorded in history.” “It is believed that it activated a zone of 150 to 200 km. west of the East Anatolian Fault. It was an unexpectedly big earthquake,” he said.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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