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by bbbobbb 1222 days ago
There is a 300km long fissure and the article contains one tweet with four pictures? And googling it reveals another set of like three images and rest of links to this article?
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Probably the same video, but here it has better quality: https://www.haberturk.com/zeytin-bahcesinde-dehsete-dusuren-...
Was that an orchard? Very nice trees.
My guess is an olive orchard, it's fairly typical of the region
They might survive then! I’ve heard of bulldozed Palestinian olive trees miraculously thriving.
That video looks uncanny. I suppose it's due to the lighting and the low resolution/focus, but if you told me that the entire video was a GPU rendering I would probably believe it.
When I watched it on my phone it looked great. On a decent sized screen, not so much. That sent me searching. Here’s another video from NTV, a Turkish TV channel.

https://www.ntv.com.tr/video/turkiye/ntv-ekibi-depremin-ikiy...

iOS assisted translation of the text below the video:

> On February 6, an earthquake occurred in Turkey and Syria, which, according to the latest data, killed more than 24,000 people. In terms of the number of victims, it has become the largest for the whole world since 2010. After the earthquake, a giant fault formed in the Turkish province of Hatay, bordering Syria. He passed through a field with olive trees. According to the Turkish TV channel NTV, the fault depth is 30 meters and the width is 200 meters.

That was really looking terrifying. Strange how the ground can sink like that but trees adjutant seems to be fine like nothing happened.
Wow, that's a lot larger than I would have expected.
Tried looking it on Sentinel Hub but based off the visual resolution, the cracks are mostly are too small to see from space with the optical satellites that just about show individual buildings.

My assumption is that you can only really statistically tell the difference with the Synthetic Aperture Radar data or if you're on the ground right beside or looking at the very largest ruptures in the country like that olive farm.