Disaster Turkey and Syria rocked again by 6.3M earthquake - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region late on Monday

ANTAKYA, Turkey Feb 20 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region late on Monday, setting off panic and damaging buildings in Turkey's Antakya city two weeks after the country's worst earthquake in modern history left tens of thousands dead.

Two Reuters witnesses reported a strong quake and further damage to buildings in central Antakya, where it was centered. It was also felt in Egypt and Lebanon, Reuters reporters said.

The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the tremor struck at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles).

Other witnesses said Turkish rescue teams were running around after the latest quake, checking people were unharmed.

Muna Al Omar, a resident, said she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the earthquake hit.

"I thought the earth was going to split open under my feet," she said, crying as she held her 7-year-old son in her arms.

"Is there going to be another aftershock?" she asked.

The two larger earthquakes that hit on Feb. 6, which also rocked neighbouring Syria, left more than a million homeless and killed far more than the latest official tally of 46,000 people in both countries.

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Ah crap.. Aftershocks tend to happen after major quakes sadly. Thoughts and prayers.

That pic tells a lot about why having strong building codes matters. Some buildings didn't even seem to lose windows while others were leveled completely.

Maybe I’m just ignorant but 6-ish isn’t that bad is it? I thought it scales exponentially.

If this is a viable pattern indicating tectonic plate movement then Greece is gonna get whacked by one motherlover of an earthquake in a few months.

6.3 is still a pretty strong one, especially when you factor in all the damaged and unsecured buildings. We had a ~5.1 back a decade or so ago in the ohio-pa-va area and it was something that did some damage to older brick buildings and other stuff. We felt it pretty easy and things fell over etc.

A full point on the scale is equal to an increase of a factor of 10. So a 6.3 is twice as powerful as a 6.2 and so on.