Constantinople: Hundreds of vibrations after 6.2 Richter

The post -seismic sequence continues after the powerful earthquake of 6.2 points Wednesday at 12:49 pm in Constantinople, increasing the concern of the citizens, with the background and the « scary » statements by Professor Celal şengör: « Constantinople is located. Time is over because of the measures that have not been taken for years. The most reasonable step now is to abandon the city, « said the professor with Turkish reports pointing out the tragic lack of free spaces in the city.

Indicatively The Turkish news website SOL HABER It says that there is no security outside the buildings as most free spaces have been destroyed to be used by large construction companies.

Insufficient concentration spaces

As a result, people who took to the streets of Constantinople at the time of the earthquake gathered in insufficient places, dangerous to their safety, such as outside construction sites or bus stops while the few parks are surrounded by buildings.

The Turkish media presents photos of the compulsory « concentration areas » in Istanbul.

Picture of Solhaber

Grilling space at bus stop/image from Solhaber

Gathering space outside of the Solhaber

Hundreds of aftershocks

So far there have been at least 284 aftershocks in Constantinople. The last major aftershock occurred at 7:19 in the morning of 4.1 degrees, according to AFAD. The Kandyli Observatory gave the intensity of the same earthquake at 4.6 degrees. The largest aftershock, 5.9 degrees, had occurred yesterday at 12:51 pm

Several residents, mainly in the western suburbs of Constantinople -Avjillar, Esenjurt, Yeni Bosna, Bachselievler, Bialikdouzu – chose to spend the night in tents and cars. The majority of the residents of Constantinople, however, spent the night in their homes, as reported by the RES correspondent.

Meeting under Erdogan without representatives of the Municipality of Constantinople

Earlier this morning, Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who attended a meeting of the Natural Disaster and Emergency Response Service (AFAD) in Istanbul, said the meeting evaluated the measures taken to minimize the earthquake. « Glory to God, we have no loss of life. As a state we are on the alert around the clock, ”he argued

It is noted that the meeting did not invite representatives of the Municipality of Constantinople, whose mayor and Erdogan’s political opponent, Ekrem Imoglou, is in prison.

Afterwards, Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with citizens in a cafeteria in the Kiajitchane area in the center of Constantinople. Talk to them and got breakfast tea.

Earthquake in Constantinople: Seismologists divided

The Turkish seismologists are divided over the evolution of yesterday’s 6.2 Richter earthquake. According to ERT, many, most notably television Naji Giorur, express the view that this earthquake is a « forerunner » of the large 7.2 -magnitude earthquake expected in the same area and will release – and whenever it happens – more than ten times more energy.

They also sound the alarm, that the continuation of the rift to the east and until the rift that gave the 1999 earthquake has not yet been « broken » and that yesterday’s earthquake creates trends that will give a new earthquake when they reach a critical point. When this will happen, however, remains unanswered.

Most seismologists also agree on the fact that there is a gradual development that takes place over time and that yesterday’s 6.2 Richter is a continuation of the 5.8 Richter that gave the same rift in 2019.

On the other hand, other seismologists appear more optimistic and argue that 6.2 Richter is a powerful earthquake that has been extinguishing accumulated energy in a rift that has had a great earthquake for 250 years.

According to the same source, the seismologists divide the northern branch of the section of the northern Anatolian rift passing through the Marmara Sea into three pieces.

The eastern part is the one that gave the great earthquake of 7.4 degrees in 1999. The western part that reaches the Gulf of Xiros in Eastern Thrace and came out in the North Aegean, had given a similar size in 1912, while the central part is the one that was in hypnosis.