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Geological Shield of Turkey Moved by Almost 10 Feet Due to Earthquake: Scientists

ROME (Sputnik) - The powerful earthquake in southern Turkey has triggered a geological shift that moved tectonic plates by three meters (almost 10 feet), President of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) ‪Carlo Doglioni said on Tuesday.
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"The Arabian plate has moved about 3 meters in a northeast-southwest direction regarding the Anatolian plate. We're speaking about a structure in the border zone between this world, the Arabian Plate, and the Anatolian Plate," he told an Italian daily newspaper.
The scientist clarified that this was as if Turkey had moved to the southwest.
Doglioni also said that the total fault size amounted at least 150 kilometers (93 miles), adding that everything happened in a matter of dozens of seconds.
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