Damascus-SANA
The Director General of the National Center for Seismology, Dr. Raed Ahmed, explained that Syria was affected by the earthquake that occurred in northern Iskenderun in general in its various regions, while the areas close to the epicenter in Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo were most affected.
And Dr. Ahmed stated in a statement to SANA that aftershocks have occurred and will occur successively, but they are much weaker than the strength of the earthquake that occurred, indicating that citizens who left their homes on the roads can return to their homes if they are not cracked, because all subsequent aftershocks are weaker in intensity.
Dr. Ahmed pointed out that this earthquake is the strongest during the investment lifetime of the national seismic monitoring network, i.e. since 1995, explaining that the state of seismic instability will continue, but with tremors of weaker impact and within the limits of (5) degrees.
Dr. Ahmed pointed out that the damage to buildings and their impact on earthquakes is according to the response of their building structure and their resistance to earthquakes, stressing the necessity of strengthening buildings that are prone to fall and engineering treatment for them.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Iskenderun region at dawn today, followed by another 6.4-magnitude earthquake in the Taurus region on the Syrian-Turkish border, and a number of weaker aftershocks, and several Syrian governorates were affected by them, and a number of buildings were damaged as a result.