After Turkey's devastating earthquake..Has Egypt become more vulnerable to earthquakes, depending on the topography of the land?
Weather of Arabia - After the earthquake of medium intensity that struck the Egyptian lands on Friday morning, the concern of the two citizens increased that Egypt would be exposed to earthquakes more in view of the topography of the earth, and the Helwan Observatory, affiliated with the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, issued a statement explaining the effect of the Anatolian Rift after Turkey's great earthquake on the African plate.
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The impact of the Turkey earthquake on Egypt
The observatory announced in a statement on its official page, on Facebook, that it had received many comments and messages about the impact of the Anatolian rift after the great Turkish earthquake on the African plate, and is Egypt more vulnerable to earthquakes, depending on the topography of the earth?
In its statement, the institute confirmed:
We will re-answer and confirm:
What is happening in Turkey has nothing to do with Egypt.
The link between it and the issue of water and dams is a misrepresentation that has no scientific basis, let alone calmness, and what is monitored and recorded of earthquakes is within its natural range, only because the impact of the news of the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey is huge on everyone, so dealing with the news takes place in a way that carries a lot of fears, and this is your right, But we assure that the matter is normal and the earthquake on Friday is of a normal average degree in relation to the earth's crust of Egypt.
150 stations to monitor earthquakes in Egypt
The National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research confirmed that since the establishment of the National Earthquake Network, it has placed all its stations - 150 stations - online for anyone who wants to view them at the time of an earthquake, on this site .
The institute indicated that whoever enters the link of the national earthquake network will notice the presence of weak earthquakes, and this is very normal. Egypt and the whole world have earthquakes daily, but 99% of them are weak earthquakes, thanks to God, and this is from the nature of the earth’s crust millions of years ago.
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