The region northeast of Adana witnessed three successive earthquakes on Sunday, ranging in strength between 4.4 and 4.6 on the Richter scale, amid a reminder of the region's violent seismic history.
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Syria and Turkey are located in a seismically active area, as the region witnessed a devastating earthquake in February 2023 as a result of the meeting of the Arabian and Anatolian plates.
The center explained that the first earthquake occurred at 14:19 pm today, Sunday, with a magnitude of 4.4 on the Richter scale and a depth of 36 km, 117 km northeast of Adana.
It was followed by a second tremor at 14:36 with the same magnitude of 4.4 degrees 139 km northeast of Adana, then a third tremor at 14:43 with a magnitude of 4.6 degrees 106 km northeast of Adana.
Syria is located in a region where earthquakes are active periodically, and their intensity varies from one earthquake to another, but the most violent earthquakes that struck Syria and the region occurred at the dawn of February 6, 2023, when the ground moved over hundreds of kilometers at the meeting point of the Arabian and Anatolian plates.
The effects of the devastating earthquake affected ten Turkish states and several governorates in northern and western Syria, followed hours later by a second earthquake with similar intensity, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, which resulted in comprehensive destruction of buildings and infrastructure and tens of thousands of victims and injured, forcing the United Nations at that time to ease the siege that had been imposed on Syria during the era of the Assad regime as a result of the catastrophic repercussions of the earthquake on all Syrians.

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