“Two or three points felt like it reached Sochi: from Sirius to the Central District.

These are the echoes of the Turkish earthquake.

There were foreshocks in the morning, this is normal,” she told RIA Novosti.

According to the seismologist, shocks of two or three points are not critical.

Karpovich explained that after large earthquakes, small underground tremors can occur before the energy is fully released.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that more than 9,000 people are involved in rescue operations after the earthquake.

The death toll from the natural disaster in Turkey has risen to 1,014.

According to the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, the readiness to send Russian rescuers to Syria and Turkey has been indicated at the highest political level, Moscow is waiting for signals.