On February sixth, a seismic event of significant magnitude, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, struck the southern region of Turkey, close to the northern boundary of Syria.
Subsequently, nearly nine hours later, another substantial earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 occurred approximately 59 miles, or ninety five kilometers southwest of the initial event.
The initial seismic event was not only the most catastrophic earthquake to strike Turkey, a country prone to such occurrences, in over two decades, but it also matched the intensity of the notorious nineteen thirty nine earthquake, which holds the record as the strongest ever recorded in the region.
