Several provinces in eastern Turkey were shaken by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, authorities announced, with no immediate reports of casualties.
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The earthquake occurred at 10:46 a.m. (7:46 a.m. GMT) in the Kale district of Malatya province, one of the provinces hit by the violent 7.8 magnitude earthquake of February 6, 2023. which left more than 53,500 dead in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in neighboring Syria.
“For the moment, there has been no loss of human life or destruction of property after the 5.9 magnitude earthquake,” writes the public disaster management agency (Afad) on X.
The municipality of Malatya also indicated that no “negative developments” were to be deplored at this stage.
Primary and secondary schools were, however, closed on Wednesday in Malatya, announced provincial governor Seddar Yavuz.
The tremor was felt very strongly in several large towns in the region, including Diyarbarkir, some 140 km from the epicenter, according to AFP correspondents on site.
Residents of these large cities immediately rushed outside their buildings, according to images broadcast by Turkish television channels.
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