Japanese earthquake expert called it 'unexpected': One of the world's biggest 'land earthquakes'
Japanese earthquake expert Professor Shinji Toda evaluated the 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaras, Türkiye. Describing the earthquake as "unexpected", Toda stated that the tremors in Türkiye were among the biggest earthquakes in the world.
Shinji Toda, Professor of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University, spoke to Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper about the earthquakes of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitudes affecting Türkiye and Syria. Shinji stated that the tremors in Türkiye were among the largest earthquakes to occur on land in the world. "It was an unexpectedly large earthquake." used the phrase.
MORE THAN TEN TIMES THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY
Pointing out that the East Anatolian Fault Line is located on the border between the Arabian Plate and the Anatolian Plate, Shinji noted that "in addition to the magnitude of the earthquake, the proximity of the epicenter to the surface also caused great damage." Shinji stressed that the "energy amount" of the earthquake was "more than ten times that of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake."
GREAT HANCHIN EARTHQUAKE
The Great Hanshin Earthquake was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the city of Kobe in the densely populated Kansai Region of western Japan on January 17, 1995. The death toll in the city with a population of 1.5 million in the fires that broke out during and after the earthquake reached 6,200.
