Earthquakes in Turkey: New work with Efthymios Lekkas

Greek work is again with Euthymios Lekas ​​in earthquake-stricken Turkey and Syria, trying to find out the causes that led to the deadly earthquakes and the massive destruction they caused.

This is a new scientific work in the region of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria with the President of OASP, Prof. Eftimis Lekas, Associate Prof. Emmanuel Vasilakis and Dr. Spyridon Mavroulis.

As stated in the related notification, it was first detected Inaccessible area in Elbistan One of the two faults that produced the magnitude 7.9 and 7.7 earthquakes was one of the world’s largest.

The revealed fault surface has a displacement of more than 5 meters and instead of tectonic trenches or sinks, it was located on the crest of a mountain range, shaping a decisive relief and changing the picture of the Earth’s surface. large landslides, changes her Flow of rivers and the destruction of large residential units, cannot by any means deal with such decay.

Also, at the end of a 300-km-long fault in the city of Golbasi, south of Malatya, a combination of co-seismic ruptures caused severe deformation of the landscape, the collapse of a part of the city and formations of the base of geologic intensive liquefaction structures.

The combination of the above resulted in large and distinct damage to buildings, which collapsed and moved away from the vertical, creating new damage, while the railway network showed strong deformations.

As emphasized by researchers who will continue research in the Turkey-Syria region throughout the next week, anti-seismic planning based on new developments imposes preventive measures at the level of specialized micro-regional studies. Based on the latest data.