Turkey retracts its warning to Arab and European countries..Has the world survived a new "tsunami" disaster?

The Turkish Earthquakes and Disasters Authority reassured citizens and retracted its warning of the possibility of a "tsunami" after hours of studying the situation. Countries bordering the Mediterranean also denied the existence of the danger, including Egypt and Italy.

This came after Turkey had sent a warning to 14 countries warning them of the possibility of a tsunami occurring in coastal cities immediately after the earthquake, including Arab countries such as Egypt and Lebanon, or European countries such as Italy.

What increased people's concern was the spread of videos from the city of Hatay, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea and is close to the epicenter of the earthquake, with sea water flooding its streets.

And the “Shababat” program (8/2/2023) followed the interaction of the tweeters with the news of the tsunami threat, as the activist Abdel Salam Al-Sayed Omar expressed his concern about the Turkish warnings and wrote, “If this is true, it means that there is a devastating earthquake in the region that is higher than the Richter scale, resulting in a great tsunami.” ".

As for singer Chrissie Lannister, she ruled out that the Turkish earthquake would affect Lebanon due to its geographical location, and she said, "This tremor is relatively far from the Mediterranean Sea. It affects the water level, but it is not afraid to cause a tsunami in the Mediterranean. Lebanon is higher than the sea, unlike Italy, for example, which is affected more if the level changes. .".

In turn, the activist Lana went to exclude the reality of these warnings, commenting, "The Mediterranean Sea is shallow, where there will be no tsunami, and the epicenter of the earthquake is not in the sea. News to scare people after this horror."

"It is very windy there. These waves are not necessarily a tsunami caused by the earthquake," Hind Abdel-Khalek said in a tweet.

It is noteworthy that the tectonic plates, if they move under the land, cause an earthquake, and if they move under the sea or the ocean, they cause a “tsunami”, as the water waves rise and flood cities and destroy everything on land, knowing that the speed of the waves reaches 800 kilometers per hour in the depth of the ocean. That is, faster than a jet plane, and slows down when the depth decreases, and when it reaches the surface, it may reach a height of 20 meters.

It is noteworthy that tsunamis are considered rare, but deadly, as the planet witnessed during the past century 58 tsunamis that killed 260,000 people.