A new strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 has been registered in Southeastern Turkey. One person died in the earthquake and 69 people were injured. There are collapsed buildings, Turkish authorities said, quoted by Reuters.
The initial information from the European Mediterranean Seismological Center was for a magnitude of 5.6, but this was changed to 5.2.
BREAKING After the 5.6 magnitude earthquake in #Malatya Turkey heavily damaged buildings were demolished.
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The new tremor comes three weeks after a powerful earthquake killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
The epicenter of today’s earthquake is in the town of Yesilurt in Malatya County. Yesilurt Mayor Mehmet Çinar told HaberTurk TV that several buildings in the city had collapsed.
Malatya is one of 11 Turkish counties that were hit hard by the strong earthquakes that devastated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 has hit eastern #Turkey
About 25 buildings collapsed during the new earthquake in Turkey.
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Nearly 10,000 aftershocks were recorded in the region after the February 6 earthquakes. Turkey has arrested 184 people suspected of being responsible for the building collapse as investigations widen, a Turkish minister said on Saturday.
