The two earthquakes with an epicenter in Kahramanmarash, southern Turkey, and a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 respectively on the Richter scale, caused a displacement of the ground mass in Turkey by three meters, said the director of the Kandilli Seismological Observatory in Istanbul, Prof. Haluk Özgener.

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"We are experiencing a real natural disaster, never seen before.

On the same day, there were two earthquakes one after the other with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 on the Richter scale.

The earth's mass shifted by as much as three meters," Prof. Jozgener told journalists.

According to the Turkish scientist, 170 earthquakes with a magnitude above 4 occurred in Turkey in 2022, writes BTA.

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"After the August earthquake in 1999 (in the Sea of ​​Marmara region), the earthquakes of February 6 are the most powerful and the most destructive in the last 24 years," he pointed out.

The scientist explained that the recent earthquakes in Kahramanmaras released energy that had been stored for 500 years, and in some places for 700-800 years.

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