One person became a victim of a new earthquake in eastern Turkey, another 69 were injured. This was announced on February 27 by the head of the Office for the Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (AFAD) Yunus Sezer.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 in the Turkish province of Malatya became known on the afternoon of February 27. According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), the earthquake epicenter was located 128 km west of the city of Sanliurfa and 16 km from the city of Malatya. The population of each of the cities exceeds 400 thousand people.
Since the quake, the Office of Emergency Management has received more than 20 reports of collapsed buildings, Sezer said. According to some reports, 29 different buildings were destroyed. Search and rescue operations are underway at the sites of five collapsed houses. Emergency services are clearing the rubble, presumably, there may be people under them.
In early February, devastating earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 occurred in the Turkish province of Kahramanmarash in the southeast of the country near the Syrian border. As of February 24, the death toll from earthquakes in Turkey exceeded 44 thousand people, and more than 5.8 thousand became victims of the elements in Syria. Osmaniye, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya and Elazig.
On February 20, new earthquakes occurred in the province of Hatay, but already with a magnitude of 6.4 and 5.8, and on February 24, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 occurred in the area of the Turkish city of Sivas. The seismic event also had an impact on neighboring Syria, where buildings collapsed in two cities, there are dead and injured.
In total, 10 thousand aftershocks were recorded in Turkey after earthquakes. On February 25, the Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) reported that aftershocks occur every three minutes, and so far this movement has not faded.
