{"id":3716,"date":"2024-10-16T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/frightening-earthquake-in-malatya-a-5-9-magnitude-tremor-occurred\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:59:30","slug":"frightening-earthquake-in-malatya-a-5-9-magnitude-tremor-occurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/frightening-earthquake-in-malatya-a-5-9-magnitude-tremor-occurred\/","title":{"rendered":"Frightening Earthquake in Malatya: A 5.9 Magnitude Tremor Occurred!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>AFAD announced that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in Kale district of Malatya at 10.46 today. It was reported that the earthquake was also felt in surrounding provinces. The Malatya fault had been examined by experts for a while; According to the latest evaluations, it was stated that this fault, which has not been broken for 3 thousand years, could produce an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AFAD<\/strong>According to the information on the official website of , the earthquake was recorded to be the epicenter of Kale district and occurred at a depth of 10.07 kilometers. The earthquake was also felt in surrounding provinces such as Diyarbak\u0131r, Tunceli and Elaz\u0131\u011f.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Teams Started Field Scanning Studies<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Yerlikaya stated that after the earthquake, all teams of AFAD and relevant institutions started field scanning activities. In his post on his social media account<em>&#8220;All teams of AFAD and our relevant institutions started field scanning in the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Malatya&#8217;s Kale district.&#8221; <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Yerlikaya stated that they are closely following the developments in the surrounding provinces, expressed his wishes to get well soon to the citizens affected by the earthquake and prayed for the country&#8217;s protection from disasters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"952\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/malatyada-deprem.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14355\" style=\"width:820px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Malatya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Sami Er stated that they have not received any problems so far and that field scanning efforts are continuing.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>History of Malatya Fault<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Malatya fault<\/strong>was last subjected to a detailed review in early 2024. Prof. from Dokuz Eyl\u00fcl University. Dr. Hasan S\u00f6zbilir emphasized the importance of this fault and said, \u201cMalatya Fault is an important fault line. This fault, right next to the second major earthquake, could seriously affect Malatya if it breaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is 200 kilometers long and consists of 3 fault segments.\u201d made the statement. S\u00f6zbilir stated that each segment of the fault could produce a 7.2 magnitude earthquake when broken alone. Research conducted to date shows that the Malatya Fault has not broken for 3 thousand years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Information about Malatya and S\u00fcrg\u00fc Faults<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Malatya fault is also known as S\u00fcrg\u00fc fault and is 220 kilometers long in total. The section passing through the west of Malatya is approximately 160 kilometers long and starts from S\u00fcrg\u00fc and extends to Kemaliye. This fault combines with the Ovac\u0131k fault to form a fault line of 220 kilometers in total. There are also shorter faults passing through Malatya.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To join our WhatsApp group <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GcUb561wzz44AcjKoMQHY6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h5>Share<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFAD announced that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in Kale district of Malatya at 10.46 today. It was reported that the earthquake was also felt in surrounding provinces. The Malatya fault had been examined by experts for a while; According to the latest evaluations, it was stated that this fault, which has not been broken &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1567,2926,4083,4082,3145,4084],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genel","tag-earthquake","tag-frightening","tag-magnitude","tag-malatya","tag-occurred","tag-tremor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasifiz.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}