According to RIA Novosti, according to the Office for the Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, the source of the earthquake lay in the sea at a depth of 9 km, 5 km from the coast.

According to the agency, residents of the province felt tremors, and several buildings damaged after the earthquakes on February 6 collapsed.

Earlier, the seismologist Anna Nikolaeva, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, commented on the situation in Turkey in an interview with Economics Today.