After the earthquake in Turkey … Lebanon registers dozens of frequencies

The National Council for Scientific Research announced in a statement that at 1:42 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2020, an earthquake measuring 7 degrees on the Richter scale shook at a depth of 16 km in front of the city of Nyon Karlovacion in the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea that hit the western coast. To Turkey and Greece “.

Initial reports indicated that “buildings were damaged with a number of casualties and injuries, and this earthquake caused an increase in seawater that flooded some streets in the Turkish city of Izmir.”

The report read: “Immediately after the earthquake, a warning about the possibility of a tsunami was issued in the coastal states of the Mediterranean Sea, including Lebanon, Syria and occupied Palestine, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, Croatia, Montenegro, Crete, Greece and Italy, and it was limited. ” The issue of the warning soon dissipated. “

The Bahnas Observatory and all the stations distributed in the north, center and south of Lebanon affiliated with the National Center for Geophysics of the National Council for Scientific Research recorded dozens of frequencies resulting from this earthquake, with an intensity ranging between 3 and 5 degrees in the Richter scale.

It is worth noting that this earthquake occurred within the group of Turkish faults in the Aegean region, and that there is no link between these faults and the group of faults in Lebanon affiliated with the African rupture. The tsunami wave alert was included in the usual information exchange in the Mediterranean network, and only for information and monitoring.