after new Twin earthquakes hit the southernmost tip of Turkey city of Hatay Monday, patients being treated in two hospitals were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Patients were evacuated at Mustafa Kemal University Research and Application Hospital and Iskenderun State Hospital.
As a precaution, nine patients who were being treated in Intensive care unit of the new service building in Nomoni District of Iskenderun Governmental Hospital was transferred to Dortyol Governmental Hospital.
Emergency services were introduced later in It was a field hospital set up in Hospital garden.
two new An earthquake shakes Hatay province, near the Syrian border. just Two weeks later another pair of major earthquakes in The area’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Monday.
According to the epicenter of the first Earthquake, with size of 6.4 It was the burial ground. He. She took place At about 8:04 p.m. local time (5:04 p.m. GMT), at depth of Disaster and Emergency Management said it was 16.7 kilometers (10.4 miles).
The epicenter of the latest earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 in Samandağ district in Turkish Hatay shook area in depth of 7 kilometers just Three minutes after the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.4.
There have been reports on social media about demolished buildings in Samandağ district. K resultAFAD, National Rescue Medical Team (UMKE), Search and Rescue Police, Miners from Kütahya and Firefighters from Istanbul started a sweep in the area Search for no signs of Damage.
officials said more Buildings collapsed, trapping occupants, and several people They got hurt in both Turkey and Syria, with three people Certain dead and 213 wounded in Turkey Hatay.
State of Syria news SANA reported this six people They got hurt in Aleppo from falling debris.
The February 6 earthquakes killed nearly 45,000 people people in both of them countries – the vast majority of they in Turkey. registered by the Turkish authorities more More than 6,000 aftershocks have occurred since then.
HaberTurk journalists writing from Hatay said they were violently shaken by an earthquake on Monday and were detained. on for each other avoid drop.
in Turkish city of Adana eyewitness Alejandro Malaver said people left homes for the streets, carrying blankets in their cars. Malaver said that everyone is really scared and that “no one wants to get it back in their homes.”
The Syrian Civil Defense affiliated with the Syrian opposition. also Known as the White Helmets, several reported people They got hurt in opposition-held northwestern Syria after they jumped from buildings or when they were hit by falling debris in City of genderris one of Cities most affected by earthquakes on February 6th.
The White Helmets added That many damage and abandoned Buildings collapsed in Northwestern Syria, without injuries anyone.
The Syrian American Medical Society runs Hospitals in Northern Syria, she said she had treated a number of Patients – including 7-year-big boy- who He suffered from heart attacks on by fear yet new earthquake.
