A total of 555 buildings were damaged after yesterday’s magnitude 6 earthquake in the southeastern Turkish province of Malatya, which was felt in several eastern and southeastern provinces of Turkey as well as in neighbouring countries such as Syria and Armenia.
In statements reported by the Turkish news agency Anatolia, Turkey’s Minister of Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change, Murat Kurum, announced the details of the damage assessment report carried out after the quake, indicating that a total of 555 buildings had been affected, 20 of them with severe damage.
‘Our damage assessment teams are working meticulously after the earthquake that occurred in the Kale district of Malatya and affected nearby districts. We have assessed some 1,211 buildings so far,’ the minister said.
‘There are 20 severely damaged buildings and 517 with minor damage in Elazığ, and 18 buildings with minor damage in Malatya (epicentre of the quake). We will complete the damage assessment work as soon as possible, and take necessary measures,’ Kurum added in a statement released via social media.
The earthquake struck at 10:46 local time (09:46 CET) on 16 October, affecting several provinces that had already suffered damage from earthquakes that devastated the whole of southeastern Turkey in February 2023, including Kahramanmaraş, the epicentre of those quakes. Experts believe that the earthquakes in 2023 activated a 3,000-year-old fault line that runs through Malatya, triggering tremors such as yesterday’s, which caused no fatalities, but left several people injured and four people had to be rescued from a collapsed building.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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