Satellite Images Show Land Rupture in Gaziantep Following Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
Satellite images show land surface ruptures in southeast Turkey caused by devastating earthquakes that struck the region on Monday, February 6.
The images, created by French seismologist Nahel Belgherze using Maxar technology, were posted to Twitter with contrasting images captured in 2020 to highlight the damage in the Turkish city of Nurdagi in Gaziantep province.
According to Belgherze, the earthquakes caused “several hundred meters of long surface ruptures” with horizontal displacements up to 4 meters in the city.
Official imagery released by Maxar on February 7 showed significant damage to buildings and infrastructure in the region.
On Monday morning, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Pazarcik district, about 20 miles (32 km) east of Kahramanmaras, and was followed that afternoon by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Elbistan district, about 45 miles (70 km) north of Kahramanmaras, according to Turkey’s national disaster management agency, AFAD.
By Friday, the death toll between Turkey and Syria had surpassed 22,000, official reports said. Credit: Nahel Belgherze/Maxar via Storyful
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