Turkey hit by fresh earthquake causing more buildings to collapse three weeks after catastrophic tremor

It comes after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on February 6 killed more than 48,000 people in Turkey and Syria
Devastation left by a huge earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks27 February 2023

Another earthquake hit southern Turkey on Monday - killing one person and causing buildings to collapse - three weeks after the region was rocked by a catastrophic tremor that left almost 50,000 people dead.

The tremor was centred in the town of Yesilyurt in Malatya province, said the country’s disaster management agency and was registered as magnitude 5.7.

Yesilyurt’s mayor Mehmet Cinar told HaberTurk television that a few buildings had collapsed in the town.

Media reports said two people were believed to be trapped in the rubble of one building.

Malatya was among 11 Turkish provinces that were hit hard by the major magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.

That quake led to more than 48,000 deaths in both countries as well as the collapse or serious damage of 173,000 buildings in Turkey.

AFAD, Turkey’s disaster management agency, said close to 10,000 aftershocks have hit the region affected by the quake since February 6.

Hundreds of thousands of apartments were among huge swathes of buildings destroyed in the quake, leaving people buried beneath rubble in freezing temperatures.

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