Turkey 7.8 - 26 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey 2023-02-06 01:17:35 (UTC)37.174°N 37.032°E17.9 km depth
M 7.8 - 26 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey
2023-02-06 01:17:35 (UTC)37.174°N 37.032°E17.9 km profundity
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TUR
Area
Gaziantep
Country
Turkey
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M 7.8 - 26 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey
2023-02-06 01:17:35 (UTC)37.174°N 37.032°E17.9 km profundity
ISO
TUR
Area
Gaziantep
Country
Turkey
Close by Spots
Nurdağı, Gaziantep, Turkey
26.2 km (16.3 mi) WPopulation: 12827
Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Turkey
33.6 km (20.9 mi) ESEPopulation: 1065975
Bahçe, Adana, Turkey
40.4 km (25.1 mi) WPopulation: 19566
Pazarcık, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
42.1 km (26.2 mi) NEPopulation: 23850
Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
46.6 km (29 mi) NNWPopulation
Change Issue. The Dead Ocean Change is a strike-slip shortcoming that obliges differential movement between the Africa and Arabia plates. However both the Africa plate, toward the west, and the Arabia plate, toward the east, are moving in a NNE course, the Arabia plate is moving somewhat quicker, bringing about the left-parallel, strike-slip movement along this section of the plate limit. By and large, seismic tremor movement along the Dead Ocean Change has been a critical danger in the thickly populated Levant locale (eastern Mediterranean). For instance, the November 1759 Close to East seismic tremor is remembered to have killed somewhere close to 2,000-20,000 individuals. The northern end of the Dead Ocean Change happens inside a complex structural district of southeast Turkey, where collaboration of the Africa and Arabia plates and the Anatolia block happens. This includes translational movement of the Anatolia Block westwards, with a speed of roughly 25mm/yr concerning Eurasia, to oblige conclusion of the Mediterranean bowl.
The right-horizontal, strike-slip North Anatolia Shortcoming, in northern Turkey, obliges a large part of the westwards movement between the Anatolia Block and Eurasia Plate. Somewhere in the range of 1939 and 1999, a progression of destroying M7.0+ strike-slip quakes engendered westwards along the North Anatolia Issue framework. The westernmost of these tremors was the seventeenth August 1999, M7.6 Izmit quake, close to the Ocean of Marmara, killed around 17,000 individuals.
At the southern edge of the Anatolia Block lies the east-west moving Cyprian Circular segment with related degrees of moderate seismicity. The Cyprian Circular segment addresses the concurrent limit between the Anatolia Block toward the north and the Africa Plate toward the south. The limit is remembered to join the East Anatolia Shortcoming zone in eastern Turkey; but no specific calculation or feeling of relative movement along the whole limit is generally acknowledged.
26.2 km (16.3 mi) WPopulation: 12827
Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Turkey
33.6 km (20.9 mi) ESEPopulation: 1065975
Bahçe, Adana, Turkey
40.4 km (25.1 mi) WPopulation: 19566
Pazarcık, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
42.1 km (26.2 mi) NEPopulation: 23850
Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
46.6 km (29 mi) NNWPopulation
Change Issue. The Dead Ocean Change is a strike-slip shortcoming that obliges differential movement between the Africa and Arabia plates. However both the Africa plate, toward the west, and the Arabia plate, toward the east, are moving in a NNE course, the Arabia plate is moving somewhat quicker, bringing about the left-parallel, strike-slip movement along this section of the plate limit. By and large, seismic tremor movement along the Dead Ocean Change has been a critical danger in the thickly populated Levant locale (eastern Mediterranean). For instance, the November 1759 Close to East seismic tremor is remembered to have killed somewhere close to 2,000-20,000 individuals. The northern end of the Dead Ocean Change happens inside a complex structural district of southeast Turkey, where collaboration of the Africa and Arabia plates and the Anatolia block happens. This includes translational movement of the Anatolia Block westwards, with a speed of roughly 25mm/yr concerning Eurasia, to oblige conclusion of the Mediterranean bowl.
The right-horizontal, strike-slip North Anatolia Shortcoming, in northern Turkey, obliges a large part of the westwards movement between the Anatolia Block and Eurasia Plate. Somewhere in the range of 1939 and 1999, a progression of destroying M7.0+ strike-slip quakes engendered westwards along the North Anatolia Issue framework. The westernmost of these tremors was the seventeenth August 1999, M7.6 Izmit quake, close to the Ocean of Marmara, killed around 17,000 individuals.
At the southern edge of the Anatolia Block lies the east-west moving Cyprian Circular segment with related degrees of moderate seismicity. The Cyprian Circular segment addresses the concurrent limit between the Anatolia Block toward the north and the Africa Plate toward the south. The limit is remembered to join the East Anatolia Shortcoming zone in eastern Turkey; but no specific calculation or feeling of relative movement along the whole limit is generally acknowledged.
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