A devastating earthquake took place on October 30th in the year 2020. The exact time of this event was at 2:51 pm.
The location of the earthquake was in the province of İzmir, Turkey.
The magnitude of this earthquake was precisely 6.6, though some charts consider it to have been 7.0. The name of the tectonic plates involved were the Eurasian plate, located in the eastern Aegean Sea, about 250 km north of the closest plate boundary, where the African plate moves to the north. This earthquake is considered a intraplate earthquake, meaning an earthquake that occurs within the interior of a tectonic plate. The term “strike slip fault” refers to tectonics concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonics associated with, zones of lateral displacement within the Earth's crust or lithosphere. Areas of strike-slip tectonics are associated with particular deformation styles.
The impacts of the earthquake were as follows. Twelve fatalities were caused by this earthquake, four-hundred to six-hundred were injured, and two people in Greece died as well and over 20 buildings collapsed. Minister Benny Gantz offered a delegation immediately to try and help rescue destroyed buildings in the area and deploy a hospital field to treat the many wounded. Gantz also offered protection for the people as well.