Its center is the Mediterranean Sea.. A new earthquake hits Hatay, Turkey

On Sunday, an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale struck the Gulf of Iskenderun in Hatay, southern Turkey.

The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, AFAD, said in a statement on its website that the epicenter of the tremor was the Gulf of Iskenderun in the Mediterranean.

It indicated that the tremor occurred at a depth of 5.39 kilometers below sea level.

The Turkish authorities did not announce whether the new tremor caused material or human damage.

The new tremor comes among the thousands of aftershocks of varying intensity that the southern Turkish provinces witnessed, following the great Kahramanmaraş earthquake at dawn on February 6, which killed tens of thousands and caused great damage to property.

Hatay is one of the 11 states most affected by the February 6 earthquake, and it also witnessed two violent earthquakes on the 20th of the same month, with a magnitude of 6.4 and 5.8 degrees, and their effects spread to the regions of northern Syria, as they were felt by the residents of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt, and the two earthquakes led to the occurrence of a small number of people. Fatalities and injuries.

On Saturday, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soilo announced that the death toll, following the major earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria, had risen to 45,986 people in Turkey alone.

In a press conference held by the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority "AFAD" in the state of Hatay in southern Turkey, Soylu said that the death toll under the rubble and in hospitals following the earthquake amounted to 45,986 people, including 4,267 Syrians, in Turkey alone.

In addition to the latest announced number of earthquake victims in Syria, which is 5,914 dead, the total death toll in the two countries has risen to nearly 52,000.

The Turkish Minister of Interior indicated that 13,072 aftershocks were recorded following the two violent earthquakes that occurred in the state of Kahramanmaraş.

On the sixth of last February, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, followed by thousands of aftershocks, some of which were of moderate intensity.

The disaster, which centered on the state of Kahramanmaraş, claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and millions of those affected, and left huge material damage in 11 Turkish states.