Two new earthquakes of magnitudes 6.4 and 5.8 were recorded Monday evening in the Turkish province of Hatay (south), the most affected by the earthquake of February 6 which killed more than 41,000 people in Turkey, reported Turkish relief agency Afad.
The relief agency tweeted on people to stay away from the coast as a precaution, warning of the risk of submersion.
The first quake, of magnitude 6.4, whose epicenter was located in Defne, a district regarding fifteen minutes by car – in normal times – from Antakya, occurred at 8:04 p.m. (5:04 p.m. GMT) and was very violently felt by the AFP teams in Antakya and Adana, 200 km further north.
It was followed three minutes later by a new tremor of magnitude 5.8 in Samandag, a coastal locality south of Antakya, reported Afad which fears “sea level rise of up to 50 cm“.
