(MENAFN) According to a specialist, the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye on Monday is "one of the biggest inland earthquakes" ever recorded.
Professor Shinji Toda emphasized the strength of the earthquakes that struck southern Turkey a day earlier, killing more than 5,400 people. He stated, "It was an unexpected large earthquake."
Professor Toda of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University in Japan remarked, "It is one of the greatest inland earthquakes in the world."
According to him, the earthquake "is likely to have been active over a vast region of around 150 km to 200 km west of the East Anatolian Fault Zone, which is regarded as an active fault," he told the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
According to the professor, the East Anatolian Fault Zone is a strike-slip fault that runs along the border between the Arabian Plate and the Anatolian Plate.
The Japanese professor stated in an interview that was released on Tuesday that "the shallowness of the epicenter caused severe damage in addition to the size of the earthquake."
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