A 7.8 earthquake hit southern Turkey overnight from Sunday to Monday, the US Institute of Geophysics said.
The earth shook again in Turkey. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Nurdağı, in the south of the country, the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) announced overnight from Sunday to Monday.
The earthquake took place at 4:17 a.m. local time (2:17 a.m. in France), at a depth of about 17.9 kilometers.
One of the most active seismic zones in the world
The tremors were felt in Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus. Turkish authorities have not yet reported any deaths or injuries, but videos posted on social media showed destroyed buildings in several cities in the south-east of the country.
Turkey is located in one of the most active seismic zones in the world. At the end of November, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, injuring around 50 people and causing limited damage, according to the Turkish emergency services.
This same region of the North-West had been hard hit in August 1999 by an earthquake of magnitude 7.4, which had caused the death of 17,000 people, including a thousand in Istanbul.
