New magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocks southern Turkey
Monday, 20 February 2023 - 11:32 pm
A shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region after it was devastated earlier this month by temblors that killed tens of thousands of people, Aljazeera reported.
Monday’s aftershock in Turkey’s Hatay province was at a depth of 2km (1.2 miles), the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.
The quake hit the town of Defne at 8:04 pm (17:04 GMT) and was strongly felt in the cities of Antakya and Adana, 200km (300 miles) to the north.
Magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 earthquakes struck Turkey’s southeast and neighbouring Syria on February 6, killing nearly 47,000 people and leaving more than a million people homeless along with an economic cost expected to run into billions of dollars.
