The scientist explained that Crimea is part of the Alpine-Himalayan belt, which also includes Turkey.
“The repetition of such an event in Crimea is fundamentally possible,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier it became known that specialists from the Russian Emergencies Ministry began search and rescue operations in the Turkish province of Kahramanmarash.
Head of the Laboratory of Seismic Hazard of the Institute of Physics of the Earth named after V.I.
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Schmidt Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexei Zavyalov, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, said that such a powerful earthquake that occurred on February 6 in southeastern Turkey had not been for almost a century and a half.