Turkey earthquake horror laid bare as satellites show 190-mile fissures in the ground

In a tweet, COMET said: “Complete picture of the two earthquake ruptures now available from the Sentinel-1 descending pass. Image below is range offsets from pixel tracking. The two ruptures appear not to be connected. Scale of event is horrific – the image is ~250 km across

“The main fault that ruptured in the M7.8 is about 300 km long and the EW fault that slipped in the M7.5 is about 125 km long”

Professor Tim Wright, who leads the COMET team, told Space.com in an email that such fissures commonly appear after powerful earthquakes. However, the two devastating tremors unleashed such a large amount of energy that the cracks are far longer than normal.

He wrote: “The bigger the earthquake, the bigger the fault and the more it slips. This earthquake fault is one of the longest on record on the continents. Also very unusual to have two such large earthquakes happening within a few hours of each other.”

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1733499/turkey-earthquake-horror-massive-190-mile-tectonic-crack-satellites-show