Assistant Professor at GAZİ University Earthquake Engineering Application and Research Center. Dr. Bulent Ozmen, “Turkey’s place in the accumulating tension, energy accumulates. These are waiting for the time it will explode like a time bomb. So there’s an accumulation of tension in Turkey. Somehow this happens in the coming days, in months, in years because this is not revealed; but I can say that Turkey’s unfortunately more prone to large earthquakes, “he said.
Gazi University Earthquake Engineering Application and Research Center, Assoc. Dr. Bulent Ozmen, DHA evaluate the seismic activity in Turkey in recent years. Özmen reminded that 2020 was an earthquake-intensive year, and Elazığ Sivrice, Van Başkale, Manisa Akhisar, Karlıova, Çankırı and the last earthquake in Manisa. Ozmen, “they’re looking at the earthquake hazard referring primarily active faults in a country. Then, we’ll make forward review by looking at the data earthquake in the past. Earthquake potential within the boundaries when we look to Turkey, there are 550 one active fault. Spider wrapped in Turkey with active faults such as networks If we add marine environment and alive faults in neighboring countries, there are 800 earthquake potentials that have the potential to produce earthquakes.As studies are done, new numbers are added on top of this number.Therefore, there are such earthquakes in the region where there are so many other faults. it is usual in terms of “he said.
‘TURKEY EARTHQUAKE to GREATER PREGNANT’
Ozmen, said up to now from 1900 when 120 years of looking at the seismic activity that damaged 24 units in Turkey, noting that they saw more than 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurred, “In judging using simple statistical methods, we see that there earthquakes above a 7.0 intensity every 5-6 years. 1999 when it comes right since the year in the Gulf of Izmit, it was in Düzce and Venda. So that means the tension builds up Turkey’s place, energy accumulates. these clocks are waiting for the time to explode like a bomb. So there’s an accumulation of tension in Turkey. because this unfolding in a way this happens in the coming days, will be in months, would be in the year, but we can say that Turkey, unfortunately, is prone to earthquakes larger. Although we place, when exactly we can not say the past formed earthquake data and looking at the active faults can say that Turkey is pregnant with a possible larger earthquake, “he said .
‘EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY IS VERY HIGH’
Regarding the earthquake in the Aegean Region and felt in many provinces, Özmen said:
“Aegean Region we call Anatolian platelet of platelets, Arabia and remain westward had to flee due to northward movement of the African plate. And a drawing zone due to the plunge to the bottom of Anatolian platelet African plate there occurs. Aegean region in the fact of the earthquake in Turkey it is experiencing the majority. The earthquake activity of that region is quite high both on land and at sea.
‘There is a possibility of a bigger earthquake on the benefit of Manisa’
Reminding that the earthquake occurred yesterday on the fault named ‘Gölmarmara’, Özmen said, “We see that there has been a lot of tension in that area since 2016. But we think that the voltage accumulated in that area will not be discharged by the earthquake of 3-5 magnitude. For a 5 magnitude earthquake, 30 of the magnitude earthquake needs to occur. To be able to discharge the energy of a 7 magnitude earthquake, 900 of a 5 magnitude earthquake should occur, so the tension that accumulates there does not disappear when 3-5 earthquakes like this occur. We can only say that the benefit called Manisa fault is likely to be a larger earthquake. “
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