Analyses of the Kahramanmaraş earthquake from February 2023
Destruction in the city of Antakya. Credit: Kristina Karas On February 6, 2023, the devastating magnitude MW 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in South East Türkiye ruptured multiple fault segments of the “East Anatolian Fault Zone’ separating the Anatolian and Arabian tectonic plates. This earthquake and its aftershock sequence was followed by a second large earthquake with