Another earthquake leaves one dead and dozens injured

Lhe new earthquake has caused the collapse of a number of buildings in the province, which was previously affected by the violent double earthquake that hit the south of the country on February 06, reports the Turkish Agency.

And to note that one dead and 69 injured were recorded, specifying that rescue teams are on site to search for the injured and assess the damage.

This earthquake occurred at 12:04 local time, at a depth of 6.96 kilometers, according to the same source. As a reminder, two new earthquakes of magnitudes 6.4 and 5.8 on the Richter scale shook, on February 20, the Turkish province of Hatay, in the south of Turkey. The first quake, whose epicenter was located in the locality of Defne, occurred at 8:04 p.m. (local time) at a depth of 16.7 km, while the second occurred 3 minutes later, with the epicenter in the district of Samandağ, 7 km deep.

Last February 6, a violent earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale shook the district of Pazarcık in Kahramanmaraş, causing enormous damage in the localities of “Gaziantep”, “Adana”, “Malatya “, “Diyarbakir”, “Sanliurfa” and “Osmaniye”, in addition to the epicenter.

A few hours following this first violent tremor, another earthquake struck north of the city of Gaziantep with almost the same intensity and near the epicenter of the first earthquake, which worsened the toll of the disaster.

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