Magnitude 5.3 earthquake jolts Turkey’s central Nigde province

Earthquake had a depth of 7km and hit the Bor district on Saturday afternoon.

A healthcare skilled rides a motor scooter on February 19, 2023, subsequent to balloons hooked up to rubble, devoted to the kids who died within the earthquakes in Hatay, Turkey, earlier within the month [Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has shaken the central Anatolian Turkish province of Nigde, the Kandilli earthquake monitoring centre stated, simply over two weeks after two devastating earthquakes that killed greater than 50,000 individuals in Turkey and Syria.

Saturday’s earthquake had a depth of 7km (4.34 miles) and hit the Bor district at 1:27pm (10:27 GMT), the Turkish catastrophe administration company AFAD stated. No casualties have been reported up to now.

Vice President Fuat Oktay stated response groups are on the bottom to evaluate any harm.

“There isn't a detrimental state of affairs in the intervening time. Could God shield our nation and our nation from all types of disasters,” he stated on Twitter.

Niğde’nin Bor ilçesinde meydana gelen depremden etkilenen tüm vatandaşlarımıza geçmiş olsun.

Ekiplerimiz sahada, hasar tespit çalışmaları devam ediyor. Şu an için olumsuz bir durum bulunmamaktadır.

Allah ülkemizi ve milletimizi her türlü afetten korusun.

— Fuat Oktay (@fuatoktay) February 25, 2023

Bor is positioned some 350km (218 miles) west of the quake-ravaged Turkish-Syrian border area.

Within the earthquakes that hit earlier this month, greater than 44,000 individuals have been killed in Turkey, the place 11 provinces have been affected, whereas the newest introduced loss of life toll in Syria was 5,914.

The earthquakes have been adopted by greater than 9,000 aftershocks, and in Turkey, broken greater than 173,000 buildings and left almost two million residents homeless, in line with authorities knowledge.

Practically 240,000 rescue employees, together with volunteers, proceed to work within the 11 quake-hit provinces in Turkey. A number of the areas affected by the quakes have been initially tough to entry however restoration efforts proceed and casualty numbers are rising as they progress.

There have been no studies of survivors being rescued in latest days.

Fears of one other main earthquake have been rekindled in extremely populated Istanbul, however a distinguished Turkish seismologist has reassured the chance “hasn’t elevated”.

“The danger hasn’t elevated as a result of we're speaking about utterly totally different techniques,” Dogan Kalafat, the director of the Kandilli Observatory’s Earthquake-Tsunami Monitoring Heart in Istanbul, informed AFP.

Some 20 million individuals in Turkey have been affected by the quake, whereas the United Nations estimates 8.8 million individuals have been affected in Syria. Much less data has come from Syria the place many individuals have been already dwelling in precarious situations after years of civil struggle.