A magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit the Iskenderun Bay in Turkey's Hatay province on Sunday. Residents in northern Syria and some areas of northern Lebanon felt the tremor. The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reported on its website that the epicenter of the quake was in the Iskenderun Bay in the Mediterranean Sea, occurring at a depth of 5.39 kilometers beneath the sea surface. Turkish authorities have not reported any damage.
This earthquake is part of the thousands of aftershocks that have affected southern Turkish provinces following the major earthquake in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, which resulted in tens of thousands of fatalities and extensive property destruction. Hatay was one of the Turkish provinces most impacted by the February earthquake, which also experienced two strong tremors on the 20th of the same month with magnitudes of 6.4 and 5.8, affecting regions in northern Syria and felt by residents in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt, causing few deaths and injuries.
On February 6, southern Turkey and northern Syria were struck by earthquakes measuring 7.7 and 7.6, followed by thousands of aftershocks, some of medium intensity. The disaster, centered in Kahramanmaraş province, claimed tens of thousands of lives and affected millions, leaving significant material destruction across 11 Turkish provinces.
