Turkey Earthquake Today 6.1 - 16 km W of Düzce, Turkey 2022-11-23 01:08:14

 6.1 - 16 km W of Düzce, Turkey

2022-11-23 01:08:14 (UTC)40.844°N 30.970°E3.9 km profundity

Authoritative Area

ISO

TUR

Locale

Düzce

Country

Turkey

Close by Spots

Düzce, Düzce, Turkey

16.4 km (10.2 mi) EPopulation: 57739

Hendek, Sakarya, Turkey

19.3 km (12 mi) WSWPopulation: 35257

Kocaali, Sakarya, Turkey

25.3 km (15.7 mi) NNWPopulation: 15076

Karasu Mahallesi, Sakarya, Turkey

29.6 km (18.4 mi) NNWPopulation: 39508

Akçakoca, Düzce, Turkey

29.7 km (18.4 mi) NNEPopulation: 35151

Distance and heading from focal point to local spot.

Structural Rundown

Seismotectonics of the Mediterranean Locale and Area

The Mediterranean locale is seismically dynamic because of the toward the north intermingling (4-10 mm/yr) of the African plate as for the Eurasian plate along an intricate plate limit. This assembly started around 50 Mama and was related with the conclusion of the Tethys Ocean. The cutting edge remainder of the Tethys Ocean is the Mediterranean Ocean. The most noteworthy paces of seismicity in the Mediterranean district are found along the Hellenic subduction zone of southern Greece, along the North Anatolian Shortcoming Zone of western Turkey and the Calabrian subduction zone of southern Italy. Neighborhood high paces of combination at the Hellenic subduction zone (35mm/yr) are related with back-bend spreading all through Greece and western Turkey over the subducting Mediterranean maritime covering. Crustal ordinary blaming all through this locale is an indication of extensional tectonics related with the back-bend spreading. The locale of the Marmara Ocean is a progress zone between this extensional system, toward the west, and the strike-slip system of the North Anatolian Shortcoming Zone, toward the east. The North Anatolian Shortcoming obliges a large part of the right-parallel level movement (23-24 mm/yr) between the Anatolian miniature plate and Eurasian plate as the Anatolian miniature plate is being pushed toward the west to additionally oblige conclusion of the Mediterranean bowl brought about by the crash of the African and Bedouin plates in southeastern Turkey. Subduction of the Mediterranean Ocean bottom underneath the Tyrrhenian Ocean at the Calabrian subduction zone causes a critical zone of seismicity around Sicily and southern Italy. Dynamic volcanoes are situated above middle of the road profundity quakes in the Cyclades of the Aegean Ocean and in southern Italy.

In the Mediterranean locale there is a set up account, a few centuries in length, reporting pre-instrumental seismicity (pre-twentieth 100 years). Seismic tremors have generally caused far reaching harm across focal and southern Greece, Cyprus, Sicily, Crete, the Nile Delta, Northern Libya, the Chart book Heaps of North Africa and the Iberian Promontory. The 1903 M8.2 Kythera tremor and the 1926 M7.8 Rhodes quakes are the biggest instrumentally recorded Mediterranean tremors, the two of which are related with subduction zone tectonics. Somewhere in the range of 1939 and 1999 a progression of crushing M7+ strike-slip tremors spread toward the west along the North Anatolian Shortcoming Zone, starting with the 1939 M7.8 Erzincan quake on the eastern finish of the North Anatolian Issue framework. The 1999 M7.6 Izmit tremor, situated on the toward the west finish of the issue, struck perhaps of Turkey's most thickly populated and industrialized metropolitan region killing, in excess of 17,000 individuals. Despite the fact that seismicity rates are similarly low along the northern edge of the African landmass, huge disastrous tremors have been recorded and announced from Morocco in the western Mediterranean, to the Dead Ocean in the eastern Mediterranean. The 1980 M7.3 El Asnam seismic tremor was one of Africa's biggest and most horrendous quakes inside the twentieth hundred years.

Enormous seismic tremors all through the Mediterranean locale have additionally been known to create huge and harming waves. One of the more noticeable authentic tremors inside the area is the Lisbon quake of November 1, 1755, whose extent has been assessed from non-instrumental information to be around 8.0. The 1755 Lisbon seismic tremor is remembered to have happened inside or close to the Azores-Gibraltar change shortcoming, which characterizes the limit between the African and Eurasian plates off the west bank of Morocco and Portugal. The tremor is prominent for both an enormous loss of life of roughly 60,000 individuals and for producing a torrent that cleared up the Portuguese coast immersing beach front towns and Lisbon. A seismic tremor of roughly M8.0 close to Sicily in 1693 created a huge tidal wave that obliterated various towns along Sicily's east coast. The M7.2 December 28, 1908 Messina tremor is the deadliest recorded European quake. The mix of extreme ground shaking and a neighborhood wave caused an expected 60,000 to 120,000 fatalities.