Waves of Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Spread to the World [Video]

held in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2023 at 04:17. 7.7 earthquakecaused a historical disaster in Turkey. The second earthquake of 7.6, which took place 9 hours later, almost destroyed what was not destroyed.

How the 7.7 earthquake, which turned February 6 into a dark day, affected the world was revealed with graphic videos shared by EarthScope Consortium. Seismic waves have been recorded even in the westernmost part of the United States.

The spread of the waves of the 7.7 earthquake to the whole world:

In the video you see above, the first cross-section waves spread in Europethe second section USA and the third section from the view above the North Pole to the whole world shows the spread.

What does this video tell us? What do the waves mean?

Video “Ground Motion Visualizationsemerged with a technique called ”. The visualization is an animation of the ground motion detected by seismometers around the world.

Each of the points we see on the screen represents a seismograph and how the earth moves with the earthquake. red dot of the ground is moving upif the blue dot is moving down is showing.

People far from the earthquake center do not feel the earthquake, but the earth is affected by the earthquake:

Earthquake waves are no longer felt by humans as they move away from the place where the earthquake occurred. But precision seismic instrumentsIt can record earthquake waves even at points far from the center.