The latest temblor, measuring 5.2 in magnitude, shook parts of the same area stricken by a far stronger quake on Feb. 6 that killed more than 50,000 people in the country and in neighboring Syria.
Rescuers searched the rubble of a collapsed building in Yesilyurt, near Malatya, Turkey, on Monday, after a new earthquake hit the area.Credit...Demiroren News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Ben Hubbard and Gulsin Harman
Reporting from Istanbul
Feb. 27, 2023, 8:10 a.m. ET
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, killing at least one person and trapping others in collapsed buildings three weeks after a devastating quake struck the same region, leaving more than 50,000 people dead in the country and in neighboring Syria.
The latest quake struck just after noon on Monday, south of the city of Malatya, according to the United States Geological Survey. Malatya is the capital of the province of the same name, one of 11 Turkish regions affected by the Feb. 6 tremor.
Yunus Sezer, the head of Turkey’s emergency response agency, said that at least one person had been killed and 69 injured in the latest quake. He urged people in the affected region not to entered damaged buildings for fear of aftershocks or further collapses. The agency said that 29 buildings in Malatya had collapsed and that five people had been rescued from the rubble. Rescuers were also searching for survivors from seven other buildings.
One previously damaged building collapsed, trapping in the rubble a father and daughter who had returned to their apartment to collect their belongings in the town of Yesilyurt, near the new quake’s epicenter, according to Haberturk TV, which was broadcasting from the scene. Both father and daughter were later rescued.
In the town of Dulkadiroglu, in the hard-hit province of Kahramanmaras, six workers who had returned to their metal workshop to retrieve kitchenwares were still inside when the quake hit, according to Haberturk. One of the men was killed, four others were injured and one escaped unscathed.
وكان الزلزال الذي وقع يوم الاثنين هو الأحدث الذي يهز المنطقة التي اجتازت الصدع منذ الزلزال القوي الذي بلغت قوته 7.8 درجة في السادس من فبراير شباط وأعقبه هزة ارتدادية قوية بعد ذلك بساعات. دمر الزلزال الأصلي والزلزال الأصلي المنطقة ، وأسقط أكثر من 100000 مبنى وترك أكثر من مليون شخص بلا مأوى في تركيا وحدها.
دمر الزلزال أيضًا المجتمعات المحلية عبر الحدود في سوريا ، وضرب منطقة دمرت فيها بالفعل 12 عامًا من الحرب الأهلية العديد من المباني وحيث يعيش ملايين النازحين بالفعل في أزمة إنسانية.
ارتفع العدد الإجمالي للقتلى بشكل مطرد خلال الأسابيع الثلاثة الماضية ، حيث تجاوز 50.000 في سوريا وتركيا بحلول يوم الإثنين. أبلغت تركيا ، حيث كان مركز الزلزال الأصلي ، عن 44374 حالة وفاة والعدد لا يقل عن 6000 شخص في سوريا ، وفقًا للأمم المتحدة.