Turkey Syria earthquake

On 6 February 2023, a series of violent earthquakes struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. They occurred 34 km (21 mi) west of the city of Gaziantep at 04:17 a.m. TRT (01:17 UTC), with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) and a magnitude of at least Mww 7.8, causing widespread damage and tens of thousands of fatalities in the region. It is the deadliest in Turkey since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, which the mainshock is tied with as the strongest recorded earthquake to hit Turkey in modern times. It is also one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the Levant and the deadliest earthquake worldwide since the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[8][9] It was felt and caused structural damage as far as Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and the Black Sea coast of Turkey.