Major aftershocks are still shaking Turkey. When will the quaking end?

Every earthquake gives rise to aftershocks, their strength proportional to the magnitude of the initial shaking. In the case of the back-to-back quakes in Turkey, many of the ensuing aftershocks have been large enough to cause additional damage and casualties.

“The likelihood of aftershocks becomes smaller with time, as does the likelihood of large, and potentially damaging events,” wrote Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist at Western Washington University, in a message to The Post. “That said, these sequences can go on for months or even years.”