Monday's magnitude 6.4 earthquake is centered near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and is felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon.
ANTAKYA, Turkey – Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, February 20, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.
Muna Al Omar said she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the ground started heaving again. The death toll from the quakes two weeks ago rose to 41,156 in Turkey, AFAD said on Monday, and it was expected to climb further, with 385,000 apartments known to have been destroyed or seriously damaged and many people still missing.
Among the survivors of the earthquakes are about 356,000 pregnant women who urgently need access to health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency has said. As of Monday morning, 197 trucks loaded with UN humanitarian aid had entered northwest Syria through two border crossings, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
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