Istanbul February 6 2023: Turkey’s AFAP emergency authority and the United States Geological Service have reported a new 7.5-magnitude earthquake in southeast Turkey.
Turkish authorities said the quake was a magnitude 7.6. The USGS said the earthquake was a magnitude 7.5, reporting it hit at 1:24 pm (1024 GMT) four kilometres (2.5 miles) south-southeast of the town of Ekinozu in the Kahramanmaras, where the 7.8 earthquake hit hours earlier.
Earlier, in the morning a magnitude 7.8 earthquake has devastated areas across southeast Turkey and northern Syria that in which at least 912 deaths were reported in Turkey, while 560 people died in Syria.