A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing three people and sparking fresh panic after a Feb. 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries. | via philstarlife
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday, Feb. 20 rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing three people and sparking fresh panic after a Feb. 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries.
Images from DHA news agency showed a hospital in Antakya being evacuated while NTV broadcaster reported another hospital was evacuated in the city of Iskenderun. "You don't know what to do... we grabbed each other and right in front of us, the walls started to fall. It felt like the earth was opening up to swallow us up."
"Hatay is no longer a safe place. We could hear a lot of buildings collapsing... We will wait for a new day, but I don't know what I'm going to do," added the man who had been sleeping in his car for two weeks after the first quake.The Syrian American Medical Society said five hospitals it supports in northwest Syria received several people who had sustained minor injuries, some when parts of damaged buildings fell on them.
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