Science News Desk – After the earthquake in Turkey, aid is reaching from all over the world for relief work. As people are being pulled out from the debris, the death toll is also increasing. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and its surrounding regions on Monday morning, and then magnitudes of 7.6 and 6.0 the next day, causing particularly heavy destruction in Turkey and Syria. The special thing in this is that the intensity of these earthquakes was more than that, their devastation has shaken the whole world. It is also important to understand how the intensity of an earthquake is measured.
this earthquake was different
As far as looking at the earthquake from the point of view of damage, first it should be seen that this earthquake was very different from other earthquakes of similar intensity. First it came in the morning when most but not all the people were in their homes. The second thing was that not one but three earthquakes have caused so much devastation in Turkey.
three earthquakes of similar magnitude
The overall effect of all the three earthquakes here has been so devastating. It is normal for a strong earthquake to be followed by smaller earthquakes. But the second shock in Turkey was almost as strong and not only that, but the third shock was also strong, so that the category of mild shocks, called aftershocks, is kept.
what is an earthquake
Earthquakes occur suddenly without warning. Many techniques claim to get their forecast up to a few minutes in advance, but this is not sufficient. These cause very strong and sudden vibrations in the ground, which are caused by the collision of tectonic plates floating on the earth’s crust. This causes the ground to tremble, landslides, avalanches, wildfires and tsunamis in the oceans, which cause devastation.