Greenland feels tremors from deadly Turkey earthquake

The 7.8-magnitude devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria on Monday, 6 February 2023, were felt as far away as in Greenland, the artic and independent part of the Kingdom of Denmark, said the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

“The large earthquakes in Turkey were clearly registered on the seismographs in Denmark and Greenland,” seismologist Tine Larsen told AFP.

According to The Local dk, the tremores from the first earthquake - the 7.8-magnitude quake -reached the Danish island of Bornholm approximately five minutes after it started.

The second one - 7.5-magnitude quake - reached the east coast of Greenland after about eight minutes.

“We have registered both earthquakes — and a lot of aftershocks — in Denmark and Greenland,” Larsen added.

The earthquakes cost the lives of at least 41,020 Turkish people while 5,800 people died in Syria. After a few weeks of rescue work, no more people were found alive.

In Syria, as many as 5.3 million people may have been left homeless by the earthquake, the Syria representative of the UN high commissioner for refugees, Sivanka Dhanapala, told a news briefing.