Damascus-Sana
The National Seismic Monitoring Center in Damascus announced that a "strong earthquake" earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale was detected near the Syrian-Turkish border.
The center said in a statement that SANA received a copy of it that the earthquake was monitored at a depth of 10 km near the Syrian-Turkish border a distance of 221 km northeast of the city of "Gaziantep" felt in most of the Syrian Arab Republic.
The European Mediterranean Center for Seismology reported earlier that an earthquake measuring 6.7 to 7 degrees east of Turkey occurred.
A slight earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Latakia in the middle of last month.
