New statements from Prof. Dr. Şener Üşümezsoy regarding The New York Times' earthquake report: They cannot produce an earthquake from this fault
Prof. Dr. Şener Üşümezsoy made important statements regarding the Istanbul earthquake debates. Üşümezsoy stated that the information regarding the faults affecting Istanbul is being distorted.
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Üşümezsoy was a guest on the program 'Doğru Yorum' (Correct Interpretation), hosted by Başak Şengül on the tv100 screens.During the program, Ü şümezsoy made important statements regarding the Istanbul earthquake.Stating that a model created for Istanbul, which was also included in articles, has been distorted, Prof. Dr. Şener Üş
ümezsoy used striking expressions regarding the expected earthquakes in Istanbul. Prof. Dr. ŞenerÜş ümezsoy's statement was as follows: It was said that in the Sea of Marmara, the fault would break.First the Adalar Fault,then the Central Ridge Fault, and then the Tekirdağ Fault would break, causing a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. After Armijo arrived, after the first study,we said that there is no stress on the fault.
There is a fault, but there is no current. Look here, in 1894, Yalovawastheepicenter.The
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earthquake. The Çınarcık coast has ruptured. Sapanca ruptured in 1999. Faults do not rupture one after another like bones just like that. They rupture after a certain point.
They were saying that the only thing not ruptured here is a fault between Küçükçekmece and Yeşilköy. They said there is a fault between them. The Adalar Fault is a dead fault, but they call it a normal fault. However, this fault ruptured in 1894. They say there is no stress here. Today, neither those in Turkey nor those abroad can produce an earthquake from this fault. But they take Armijo as a model and even though Armijo says there is no stress on this fault, they cut through it. They do not put the fault that ruptured in 1894 on their map. They turn a 20-kilometer fault into a long fault line.
Look, they say there is a fault cutting the central ridge between Büyükçekmece and Küçükçekmece. But we took the data of the late Namık Aysal because that fault does not exist. We re-evaluated it and examined this area millimeter by millimeter. This fault does not exist here.
Even if we assume it exists, there is a break after this point. There is another fault after this. What we saw here is that if a 70-kilometer or 50-kilometer section were to rupture at once, it would cause a 7.2 magnitude earthquake.This entered their minds like a scholastic
dogma.In that case, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake occurred here. It would take 30 earthquakes of 6.2 magnitude to equal a 7.2. But there was no 7.2 magnitude earthquake here. But in my opinion,
this fault in the second section here does not exist. My entire struggle since 2005 has been about this.After the earthquake occurred here in 2019, I said that only the fault
between Büyükçekmece and Silivri will rupture. There will be an earthquake between 6 and 6.5. There is no fault on the other side, and there is no earthquake either. The Adalar Fault is dead, and after this fault ruptured, I said that there is no other active fault left.