Turkey Lebanon Map World Earthquake Fault Lines Map

43 magnitude earthquake 2008 10 19 140759 utc at 1407 october 19 2008 utc location.

What is earthquake slideshare earth hour indonesia. Epicenter at 34859 33971 132 km from ayia napa 82 miles. Turkey earthquake fault line map. Fault lines make greece turkey and islands in the aegean sea some of the parts of the world most at risk of earthquakes.

Turkeys map of active faults must be updated to add new fault lines that triggered recent earthquakes an expert has said. Thickness of the lines denotes the importance of the fault line in terms of possible earthquake magnitude. There are 485 fault lines officially known in turkey.

In contrast the first in a series of recent earthquakes in central italy in august 2016 magnitude 62mw led to 299 deaths and caused severe damage to a whole town leaving 4500 people homeless. The fault line map below shows that the aegean plate is next to the. The global seismic hazard assessment program was a multi year project sponsored by the united nations that assembled the first consistent worldwide map of earthquake zones.

Local time on 24 january at a depth of 15km and centred near the district of sivrice in eastern elazig province. Turkey earthquake fault line map. Google earth map showing the major active faults in lebanon.

Turkey is a seismically active area within the complex zone of collision between the eurasian plate and both the african and arabian platesmuch of the country lies on the anatolian plate a small plate bounded by two major strike slip fault zones the north anatolian fault and east anatolian faultthe western part of the country is also affected by the zone of extensional. Republic of turkey prime ministry disaster emergency management authority presidential of earthquake department. But in the last 10 years more than 100 new faults formed said hasan soezbilir the head of the earthquake research and training center at dokuz eyluel.

52 in palekastro crete greece. The project was designed to help nations prepare for future earthquakes and take steps to mitigate potential damage and reduce deaths. Space images turkish fault reveals seismic steadiness tremors were also felt in neighbouring syria lebanon and iran.

Other earthquakes in southern europe and turkey have cost thousands of lives in the past. Scientists divided the globe into 20 regions of seismic activity conducted research. Interactive map list volcanodiscovery.

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