A surface rupture caused by one of the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023, is visible in images taken by Earth-observing satellites of U.S. company Maxar Technologies.

The crack was created by the first of the two major tremors that hit the region on Monday, the more powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck at 4:17 a.m. local time (8:17 p.m. EST on Feb. 5).

Satellite images have uncovered the devastation left behind by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria earlier this week, as 190-mile-long cracks appear on the ground. According to the country’s ...