A magnitude 5 aftershock has sown panic in the city of antiochthe most affected by the earthquakes of February 6 and last Monday, although it did not cause major damage.

The tremor occurred at 15:53 ​​GMT, with its epicenter in Baliklidere, just five kilometers south of Antioquia, the capital of the hatay provinceaccording to data from the Kandilli seismographic observatory in Istanbul.

The shaking caused panic among those they still live in tents in this city, almost completely destroyed by the earthquakes on the 6th, which left more than 43,000 dead in ten provinces of the country, reports the NTV network.

But according to the provincial governor declared, Rahmi Doganto the Turkish agency Anadolu, the earthquake has caused practically no new damage in a city where no house is inhabited at the moment.

“Except for the collapse of some buildings that were already damaged, nothing serious has happened. According to the first information, there are no injuries and no one has been left under the rubble,” Dogan said.

Antioch, which was already the city with the highest level of destruction by the earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 of February 6because it is located just above a geological fault, suffered a new and independent earthquake last Monday, according to experts, of magnitude 6.4, with an aftershock of 5.8.

That tremor caused six deaths, of which three were people trying to recover belongings from damaged houses, and more than a hundred injured, 18 of them seriously.