Earthquake in Turkey created a giant 200m wide 30m deep split in a 35 decares olive tree field.

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  1. I’ve never seen anything like this, it’s so wide. Are there similar rifts like this elsewhere, formed in our lifetime?

  2. Oh daamn. That is Massive. One good side is that this one appeared in sparsely populated area.

    I wonder how is this solved legally – to whom this new land belongs to.

  6. I’m curious. If this field was split in two, it’s like new territory appeared in between. Who owns that new territory? Does the current owner suddenly have extra hectares?

  9. My mind can’t picture what actually happened here. Was it soil liquefaction or did the plates move apart and expose buried soil and new land?

  11. There’s a village nearby visible in the second image. Pretty scary to think it was that close to just being completely swallowed up.

  13. To everyone asking whom the new land belongs to, it belongs to the same owner, they just need to update the current paperwork.

  14. Dumb question: but what the hell do you do in these cases? Try and fill it with dirt and say “guess my field just expanded in size”?

  19. “decares”? I knew ares and hectares (100 ares, = 10.000 m2), but TIL decares … = 10 ares = … 1000 m2. So the size of a big garden.

  20. In asia theres a saying (or in japan at least) that if there is an earthquake, run to a bamboo groove if there is one, because the roots are sturdy as hell. And then there is this….

  22. If you look into the distance in the first two photos it’s pretty clear that this isn’t the first time something like this happened in the area.

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