Experts Call Turkish Earthquakes The Most Feared By Experts

The Dean of the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Irwan Meilano, said that the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Turkey was an earthquake with a sliding mechanism (strike-slip) and was among the most feared earthquake phenomena that occurred by earthquake experts. The epicenter of Turkey, which is now Turkey's largest earthquake after the previous devastating earthquake in December 1939 which had a magnitude of M 7.8 in northeastern Turkey, near the North Anatolian Sesar route," said Dr. Irwan Meilano, who is also an earthquake expert from ITB, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, February 8. The epicenter was in the South Turkish area with a depth of 11 km that triggered a tsunami with a tsunami height as high as 30 cm in Erdemli. The source of the earthquake was a power plant (generator) of the devastating earthquake on the mainland of Turkey.

Irwan Meilano explained that there were four reasons the Turkish earthquake was destructive, namely first, the Turkish earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 which included a large earthquake scale. Second, the Turkish epicenter was close to the ground level, which was 18 kilometers. The third reason is that aftershocks occurred again after 11 minutes with a magnitude of 6.7 and a few hours later there was a magnitude 7.5 aftershock. Fourth, a Turkish earthquake occurred in an environment that had a bad building structure.

Reporting from the official website of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), Head of the Earthquake and Tsunami Center Dr. Daryono, S.S, M.Si explained that the earthquake was sourced from the East Sesar zone, which is an active fault zone accompanied by the tectonic dynamics of the Arab Plate and Anatoly. Supported by Irwan Meilano's statement explaining that the Turkish earthquake was an earthquake with a sliding mechanism (strike-slip).