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Two enormous cracks in Earth's crust opened near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes shook the region on Monday (Feb. 6), killing over 20,000 people.
Researchers from the U.K. Centre for the Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET) found the ruptures by comparing images of the area near the Mediterranean Sea coast taken by the European Earth-observing satellite Sentinel-1 before and after the devastating earthquakes.
The longer of the two ruptures stretches 190 miles (300 kilometers) in the northeastern direction from the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea. The crack was created by the first of the two major tremors that hit the region on Monday, the more powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck at 4:17 a.m. local time (8:17 p.m. EST on Feb. 5). The second crack, 80 miles long (125 km), opened during the second, somewhat milder 7.5-magnitude temblor about nine hours later, COMET said in a tweet on Friday (Feb. 10).
Such ruptures appear commonly after powerful earthquakes, professor Tim Wright, who leads the COMET team, told Space.com in an email. These two fissures, however, are unusually long, a testament to the enormous amount of energy the earthquakes unleashed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/turkey-earthquake-opened-190-mile-long-fissure-satellite-images-show/ar-AA17ljsF

republianmushroom
(21,697 posts)amazing
roamer65
(37,805 posts)NJCher
(41,803 posts)that would mean they won't be getting electricity for a long time.
How would you like to have that on your "to do" list: fix 8 hydroelectric dams.
roamer65
(37,805 posts)NJCher
(41,803 posts)How it gets done, that is. Obviously it is of a very high priority, coming just after saving lives.
I lived in an area where the Army Corp of Engineers constructed one of these damns and their knowledge and reputation is far reaching.
I think China has a lot of these dams. I think they might be the only other country capable of helping. Oh one other Ill bet the Germans could.
Maybe poster DFW will come along and help us with that.
roamer65
(37,805 posts)crickets
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