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by Valden » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:24 am
Another one.
ANKARA (AFP) – A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook eastern Turkey early Monday, media reports and officials said.
The quake struck at 04:32 am (0232 GMT) with an epicentre near the Karakocan town in Elazig province, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said on its web site.
The Anatolia news agency quoted the governor of Elazig, Muammer Erol, as saying that they had so far received reports of a house damaged in a village.
Deadly earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several active fault-lines. Two powerful tremors in the heavily populated northwest claimed about 20,000 lives in August and November 1999.
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by charlou » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:48 am
The Anatolia news agency quoted the governor of Elazig, Muammer Erol, as saying that they had so far received reports of a house damaged in a village.
Great if that's all ... the damage sounds pretty light for such a quake?
Is that epicentre a remote area in Turkey?
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by Valden » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:02 am
Charlou wrote:The Anatolia news agency quoted the governor of Elazig, Muammer Erol, as saying that they had so far received reports of a house damaged in a village.
Great if that's all ... the damage sounds pretty light for such a quake?
Is that epicentre a remote area in Turkey?
That's all they got so far.. wait for 24 hours, it might end up being worse. (I hope not.)
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by Valden » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:41 am
Death toll at 41 so far..
ANKARA, Turkey – A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday, killing at least 41 people and knocking down houses in at least three small villages, the government said.
Mayor Bekir Yanilmaz, of the town of Kovancilar said the victims were from the villages of Okcular, Yukari Kanatli and Kayali, where the quake toppled stone or mud-brick homes and the minarets of mosques.
The government's crisis center said around 60 people were also injured in the quake which occurred at 4:32 a.m. (0232 GMT, 9 p.m. EST) in Elazig province, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) east of Ankara, the capital, and caught many people in their sleep.
It was centered near the village of Basyurt, and was followed by more than 20 aftershocks, the strongest measuring 4.1, according to Istanbul's Kandilli Observatory seismology center.
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by RappingAgnostic » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:41 am
Another one?
Wow....
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by Ameri Boi » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:06 am
Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
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by Azathoth » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:25 am
Ameri Boi wrote:Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
Hardly
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by RuleBritannia » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:42 am
Ameri Boi wrote:Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
According to Wikipedia an earthquake of magnitude 6.0-6.9 on the Richter scale (such as this one in Turkey) occurs every 3.04 days (120 per year). Earthquakes under 6.0 on the Richter scale occur every 0.005 days (65,000 per year or 1250 per week). So only having only 3 or 4 earthquakes this week would be very unusual.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:05 pm
2012. Just sayin'. Don't say you weren't warned.
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by kiki5711 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:13 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:2012. Just sayin'. Don't say you weren't warned.
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by kiki5711 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:40 pm
RuleBritannia wrote:Ameri Boi wrote:Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
According to Wikipedia an earthquake of magnitude 6.0-6.9 on the Richter scale (such as this one in Turkey) occurs every 3.04 days (120 per year). Earthquakes under 6.0 on the Richter scale occur every 0.005 days (65,000 per year or 1250 per week). So only having only 3 or 4 earthquakes this week would be very unusual.
And what is causing them?
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by Feck » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:51 pm
kiki5711 wrote:RuleBritannia wrote:Ameri Boi wrote:Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
According to Wikipedia an earthquake of magnitude 6.0-6.9 on the Richter scale (such as this one in Turkey) occurs every 3.04 days (120 per year). Earthquakes under 6.0 on the Richter scale occur every 0.005 days (65,000 per year or 1250 per week). So only having only 3 or 4 earthquakes this week would be very unusual.
And what is causing them?
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by RuleBritannia » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:37 pm
kiki5711 wrote:RuleBritannia wrote:Ameri Boi wrote:Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
According to Wikipedia an earthquake of magnitude 6.0-6.9 on the Richter scale (such as this one in Turkey) occurs every 3.04 days (120 per year). Earthquakes under 6.0 on the Richter scale occur every 0.005 days (65,000 per year or 1250 per week). So only having only 3 or 4 earthquakes this week would be very unusual.
And what is causing them?
Movement of the tectonic plates.
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by Valden » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:25 pm
RuleBritannia wrote:kiki5711 wrote:RuleBritannia wrote:Ameri Boi wrote:Is this the 3rd or the 4th earthquake to happen in the last week?
According to Wikipedia an earthquake of magnitude 6.0-6.9 on the Richter scale (such as this one in Turkey) occurs every 3.04 days (120 per year). Earthquakes under 6.0 on the Richter scale occur every 0.005 days (65,000 per year or 1250 per week). So only having only 3 or 4 earthquakes this week would be very unusual.
And what is causing them?
Movement of the tectonic plates.
Yep, a chain reaction.
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