No one has forgotten the deadly earthquake which took no less than 53,000 lives in 2023. Still bruised, the area was once again shaken by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake this Wednesday.
The earthquake occurred at 10:46 a.m. (09:46 a.m. BST) in the Kale district, in the province of Malatya, one of the provinces hit by the violent 7.8 magnitude earthquake of February 6, 2023, which caused more than 53,500 deaths in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in neighboring Syria.
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“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 Malatya Municipality also indicated that there were no “negative developments” 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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