Quakes of 6.4 and 5.8 magnitude shake southern province of Hatay, threatening more destruction
to stay away from the Mediterranean coastline in Hatay, fearing a potential tsunami of up to half a metre.
Muna al-Omar, a resident of Antakya, said she was in a tent in a park when the 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit. “I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet,” she said, crying as she held her seven-year-old son in her arms.People react after the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Antakya.Those who had remained in Hatay for two weeks after the first quakes said they had done so out of fear of losing their homes entirely, or a sense that they had nowhere else to go.
Hours earlier, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on a visit to Turkey that Washington would help “for as long as it takes” as rescue operations and aftershocks were winding down and the focus turned to towards urgent shelter and reconstruction work.
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