Istanbul, Feb 6 (EFE).- One second earthquake of magnitude 7.6 has shaken at 10:24 GMT this Monday the southeast of Turkey, already devastated by the earthquake this morning of similar strength and dozens of large-calibre aftershocks.
The epicenter of this new tremor is in Elbistan, in the Kahramanmaras province, about 80 kilometers north of the first one, which occurred at 1:17 GMT today.
Today’s earthquake, the worst recorded in Turkey so far this century
The magnitude 7.7 earthquake with its epicenter in an area of the southeast of Turkey close to the border with Syria, which today has caused nearly 1,400 deaths and 7,000 injuries, is the most serious in Turkey so far in the 21st century.
The deadliest earthquake in the last 50 years, also measuring 7.4, occurred on August 17, 1999 with its epicenter in Izmir, in the northwest of the country, and left some 17,000 dead, 500,000 homeless, 45,000 injured and 15 million affected.
The one this morning is also the second strongest earthquake in 100 years, after the one that shook Erzincan, in eastern Turkey, on December 26, 1939, measuring 7.8. That earthquake left more than 32,000 dead and caused a tsunami in the Black Sea, located about 160 kilometers from the epicenter.
