Japanese earthquake engineer Mori Shinichiro said that it is possible that the "deadly impulse" is behind the severe damage to buildings in Turkey as a result of the earthquake that struck the south of the country a month ago.

The deadly pulse is a seismic wave with a duration of up to two seconds, which causes severe damage to two-story buildings.

And the state radio and television in Japan, “NHK” (NHK), reported in a report today, Sunday;

Mori Shinichiro - a professor at Ehime University in western Japan - began conducting a field study in southern Turkey, about a month after the strong earthquakes that hit the region.

Yesterday, Saturday, Mori visited the earthquake-hit areas in southern Turkey, where he noticed a large erosion in the surface of the earth caused by the earthquake in the town of Nordagi (Gaziantep Province) near the epicenter, and said that it appeared that the earth had been subjected to vertical and horizontal drifts.


The Japanese expert also inspected a building whose first floor had collapsed, and knocked on the building's columns to verify their strength. Mori said that buildings that were not sufficiently earthquake-resistant were severely damaged.

Moore asked earthquake survivors what types of tremors they felt when the disaster struck.

The Japanese expert added that he will continue his field studies of the earthquake areas in Turkey until the day after tomorrow, Tuesday, and then prepare a report on the results of his research upon his return to Japan.

message to the Japanese

The earthquake engineer warned that the Japanese should realize that the old buildings in their country, which were built according to old standards to resist earthquakes, could be exposed to types of losses in the event of a major earthquake.

Turkey's earthquake occurred on the sixth of last February with a magnitude of 7.8 in the state of Kahramanmaraş near the Syrian border, and the first earthquake was followed by another earthquake 11 minutes later, with a magnitude of 7.6, and the earthquake and tremors that followed killed more than 51,000 people in Turkey and Syria. .

More than 200,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed or severely damaged in Turkey alone.

Turkish seismologists |

#Turkey_and_Syria_earthquake moved the Turkish Anatolian plate towards the west with a depth of 3 meters to separate from the Arabian Peninsula plate by 3 meters as well, and


they explain how the #destructive_earthquake occurred in a circle with a diameter of 150 km in a destructive way as the strongest earthquake over the past 30 years


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Specialists described the Turkish earthquake as the largest in the history of the region, and only the Erzincan earthquake that occurred in northeastern Turkey in 1939, which caused great damage at that time, is close to it in strength. Experts concluded that the proximity of this earthquake to population centers is what caused causing a large number of casualties.

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria was so strong that it shifted one side of the Anatolian Plate - on which Turkey is located - for a distance of 3 meters to the west.