Turkey is rocked by a powerful 5.5 magnitude earthquake just weeks after being rocked by a disaster that left 50,000 dead and more than a million homeless
A powerful earthquake struck Turkey again today amid the nation’s struggle to recover from a series of disasters this month.
The 5.2-magnitude earthquake at a depth of 10km has hit central Turkey just days after two more tremors struck the border near Syria.
At 10:27 a.m., an alarm was sounded by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center that an earthquake had struck 40 km south of the town of Aksaray and 18 km northeast of Emirgazi.
It comes at a time when both Turkey and Syria had begun rebuilding homes for the millions displaced by the tremors.
More than 50,000 have been killed due to the ongoing destruction, but it’s unclear if anyone died as a direct result of today’s incident.
A powerful earthquake struck Turkey again today amid the nation’s struggle to recover from a series of disasters this month (file picture).
On Monday, a new 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck parts of Turkey and Syria, which had been devastated by a massive earthquake two weeks earlier.
Officials confirmed that three people died in Monday’s quake after more buildings collapsed, trapping occupants, and injured several people in both countries.
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