It is reported by TASS with reference to the authorities.
According to the latest data, the death toll in Turkey as a result of earthquakes has reached 6,957, and 38,224 people have been affected.
Head of the Laboratory of Seismic Hazard of the Institute of Physics of the Earth named after V.I.
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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 as that that occurred on February 6 in southeastern Turkey had not been in the country for almost a century and a half.