Two American scientists have published an analysis of the series of earthquakes that have been shaking Albania since Tuesday morning, in which they point out that everything could have been much worse.
With a reminder of the victims and injured in the multitude of earthquakes that shook Albania yesterday, the strongest of which was 6,4 degrees, American scientists Ross Stein and Volkan Sveligen claim that everything could have been much worse.
They remind that the earthquake in Skopje in 1963 was a little weaker, but had dramatically greater consequences.
The Skopje earthquake of July 1963 had a magnitude of 6,1, but resulted in 1.070 deaths, between three and four thousand injured and more than 200.000 who were left homeless, while the city itself was almost 80 percent destroyed .
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Two American scientists, in an analysis published on the Temblor portal, also say that the activity of the soil after the strongest shock that hit parts of Albania yesterday is very unusual, reports Tanjug.
More than 520 minor earthquakes were recorded in Albania during yesterday and today, and the strongest ones were slightly above five degrees.
Learners Svein and Steligen connected yesterday's earthquake in Albania with earthquakes that were registered in several cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina after just six hours, the strongest impact of which was magnitude 5,4.
Namely, they do not exclude the possibility that it is a coincidence, but if, as they say, these ground activities are connected, it could be stimulated by the seismic waves of the earthquake in Albania, but, according to their interpretation, they would spread in just a few minutes .
According to their interpretation, the earthquake that hit Albania was the result of the tectonic pressure of the Earth's crust, which stretched from southern Croatia to Greece.
This compression of the Earth's crust, they pointed out, is evident in the contractions that have occurred at the Earth's surface and is visible in the shrinkage that has occurred at the Earth's surface, as shown by GPS measurements compared to earlier earthquakes in the region.
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