A giant fault over 200 meters wide and 30 meters deep was formed in the Turkish province of Hatay after the devastating earthquake of February 6, dariknews.bg reported.
The fault was filmed by a drone and shown in a video distributed by the Turkish television station NTV. Soil displacement has occurred in an olive field of 35 hectares in the center of the village of Tepehan.
📍 After the earthquake in Hatay, an olive field in a village was divided into two.
▪ A giant rift with a depth of 30 meters and a width of approximately 200 meters was formed. pic.twitter.com/7N8fedWLtX
— News 7 (@News7) February 11, 2023
Local residents told reporters they heard the explosion. “There was a very big explosion, I didn’t see it, but I heard a sound. When I looked in this direction in the morning, unfortunately I saw such ruins. Before, the field was flat. Now even an excavator can’t pass here,” explained one of them.
