This is reported by RIA Novosti.

Earlier, Turkish authorities said the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey had risen to 3,432.

Head of the Laboratory of Seismic Hazard of the Institute of Physics of the Earth named after O.Yu.

Schmidt of the Russian 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 happened for more than 130 years.