It is also the deadliest in present-day Syria since the 1822 Aleppo earthquake the deadliest worldwide since the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the fifth-deadliest of the 21st century. It is the deadliest earthquake in what is now present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and the deadliest natural disaster in its modern history. The confirmed death toll stood at 59,259: 50,783 in Turkey and 8,476 in Syria. Development experts from the United Nations estimated that about 1.5 million people were left homeless. An estimated 14 million people, or 16 percent of Turkey's population, were affected. There was widespread damage in an area of about 350,000 km 2 (140,000 sq mi), about the size of Germany. The seismic sequence was the result of shallow strike-slip faulting. There were more than 10,000 aftershocks in the three weeks that followed. It was felt as far as Egypt and the Black Sea coast of Turkey. It is also one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the Levant. The M w 7.8 earthquake is the largest in Turkey since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake of the same magnitude, and jointly the second-strongest recorded in the history of the country, after the 1668 North Anatolia earthquake. There was widespread damage and tens of thousands of fatalities. This earthquake was centered 95 km (59 mi) north-northeast from the first. It was followed by a M w 7.7 earthquake at 13:24. The earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII ( Extreme) around the epicenter and in Antakya. The epicenter was 37 km (23 mi) west–northwest of Gaziantep. On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a M w 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria.
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