Geological Survey, said many smaller aftershocks are still likely. Dara Goldberg, a geophysicist at the U.S. What will happen next is hard to predict. Seismologists said the 7.5-magnitude shake that came after the first quake qualified as an aftershock because it met aftershock classifications: It occurred within one fault line of the initial quake, and it was smaller in magnitude. A man stands next to the rubble of a building in Zardana, Syria, on Feb. But the jolt that hit Turkey just over nine hours after the initial earthquake was only 0.3 units smaller. The 7.5-magnitude tremor that struck Turkey on Monday after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake was an unusually strong aftershock, according to seismologists.Īftershocks are typically about 1.2 magnitude units lower than the original quake, a statistical theory shows. 26, 2001: A magnitude-7.7 quake strikes Gujarat in India, killing 20,000 people. 26, 2003: A magnitude-6.6 earthquake hits southeastern Iran, resulting in 50,000 deaths. 26, 2004: A magnitude-9.1 quake in Indonesia triggers an Indian Ocean tsunami, killing 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
8, 2005: A magnitude-7.6 earthquake kills over 80,000 people in Pakistan’s Kashmir region. May 26, 2006: More than 5,700 people die when a magnitude-6.3 quake hits the island of Java, Indonesia.May 12, 2008: A magnitude-7.9 quake strikes eastern Sichuan in China, resulting in over 87,500 deaths.12, 2010: In Haiti, a staggering 316,000 people are killed by a magnitude-7.0 quake, according to government estimates. March 11, 2011: A magnitude-9.0 quake off the northeast coast of Japan triggers a tsunami, killing more than 20,000 people.April 25, 2015: In Nepal, more than 8,800 people are killed by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake.28, 2018: A magnitude-7.5 earthquake hits Indonesia, killing more than 4,300 people. Three tectonic plates, the Anatolia, Arabia and Africa plates, interact with one another in the region where the earthquakes struck, according to the agency, and more aftershocks are expected.Ī look at some of the world’s deadliest earthquakes since 2000: The region has older buildings with older types of concrete, which were not designed to absorb so much shaking, the USGS said. Intermediate are those between around 43½ miles and 186½ miles, and deep are between that and nearly 435 miles, according to the agency. "Shallow” earthquakes are considered those with depth of 70 kilometers or less, or around 43½ miles, according to the USGS.
Khalil Hamra / APĪlso contributing to the intense shaking was how shallow the two largest of the earthquakes were - the main one was 11 miles deep, and a 7.5-magnitude aftershock was just over 6 miles deep, it said. “An earthquake this size has the potential to be damaging anywhere in the world, but many structures in this region are particularly vulnerable.” Men search for survivors in the debris in Adana, Turkey, on Monday. “It’s difficult to watch this tragedy unfold, especially since we’ve known for a long time about how poorly the buildings in the region tend to behave in earthquakes,” USGS scientist David Wald said in an article on its website. “Through history, there’s been rescues made out to the 10-day mark and even slightly beyond that,” Ewald said.īuildings in the area where a devastating earthquake struck in Turkey on Monday, killing more than 3,700 people, were vulnerable to earthquakes, the U.S. The hope is that it is in Turkey and operational within 18 hours, Ewald said Monday evening. The team will take everything it needs for a base camp. The Los Angeles County team, which specializes in earthquakes, has deployed to disasters in other countries, including the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, officials said. The other is out of Virginia.Įwald said at a news conference that in addition to expertise and equipment for heavy rescues in reinforced concrete, the team will also have medical equipment and doctors who can perform amputations on people who are trapped so they can be rescued. The Los Angeles team is one of two being sent by the U.S. “One of the most important things is for the people to have hope,” Deputy Fire Chief Tom Ewald said, adding, “For the folks impacted, every little bit makes a difference.”
The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s heavy urban search and rescue team heading to Turkey to help in the disaster has found people alive when responding to past international earthquakes, an official said Monday.
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