The quake was registered at around 10:31 p.m. local time (20:31 CET) in the municipality of Göksun, the Kandilli earthquake station said on the short message service Twitter. The USGS put the magnitude of the quake at 5.0. The state news agency Anadolu Ajansi reported a magnitude of 5.1, citing information from the civil protection agency Afad.
The municipality of Göksun is located in the province of Kahramanmaras, which was hit by the earthquake disaster in the Syrian-Turkish border area. It was initially not known whether the quake on Saturday evening caused damage or whether people were injured.
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