Italian scientists will arrive in Türkiye subsequent week to look at samples from the devastating earthquakes, mentioned a Turkish scientist dwelling in Italy on Monday.
The newest earthquakes in southern Türkiye on Feb. 6 garnered nice curiosity amongst Italian scientists, mentioned Turkish scientist Aybike Akıncı of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in an unique interview she gave to Anadolu.
“It is because of the quake’s impact, the area it affected, and the size of the damage it caused,” she mentioned, including that the quake was the strongest after the one which hit japanese Erzincan province in 1939.
“The twin earthquakes in Türkiye are not the type of earthquakes we experience very often. It was an earthquake-triggering earthquake. It created two major earthquakes. One is 7.8, the other is 7 magnitude,” Akıncı additional mentioned.
The Italian scientists will go to quake-stricken areas to look at and produce joint tasks and options with their Turkish counterparts, she added.
On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck quite a few Turkish provinces, taking on 50,000 lives.
Around 14 million folks in Türkiye have been affected by the quakes in addition to many others in northern Syria.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
