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Title: Visualizing Earth's Moving Plates
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/visualizing-earths-moving-plates
Published: Feb 13, 2023
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2023-02-13 09:27:45 by Horse
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On February 6 and 7, the Southeast of Turkey and the Northwest of Syria have been hit by devastating earthquakes. In addition to the main tremor that reached a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, more than 20 aftershocks with magnitudes between 5.0 and 7.5 were registered in the earthquake-ravaged region around Gaziantep. Since Monday, the death toll of the disaster has climbed to 17,000 in Turkey and neighboring Syria, according to CNN. The cause of the Turkey-Syria earthquake - and all other earthquakes - lies in the phenomenon of plate tectonics, i.e. the continental drift of the plates which make up the Earth's mantle. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, several such plates meet in Turkey, which significantly increases the risk of serious earthquakes. Poster Comment: See those red arrows near Seattle. That is the Juan de Fuca plate and will wipe out Washington state on the coast in a few years.
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