The earthquakes emanated from a fault located 18 km below the surface, leading to strong and violent shaking that affected areas hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter, says NASA.
Two earthquakes with magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5 devastated southern Turkey and western Syria on February 6, 2023, wreaking havoc in both neighboring nations.
"This generated extremely strong shaking over a very large area that hit many cities and towns full of people. The rupture length and magnitude of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake was similar to the 1906 earthquake that destroyed San Francisco." The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 data were used to construct the map, which was then examined by the Earth Observatory of Singapore's Remote Sensing Lab in association with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech.
He, however, noted that "the damage proxy map may be lower in areas of vegetation, such as in the mountains, due to seasonal variations."The damage proxy map and satellite data are being shared with institutions like the U.S. State Department, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief, and the World Bank by members of NASA's Earth Science Applied Sciences' disasters program area in cooperation with international partners.
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