Istanbul (EFE)
The earthquake took place at 10:27 GMT and could be felt in several neighboring provinces, reported the Turkish press, although there is still no information on possible damage.
Earthquakes between magnitudes 5 and 6 are relatively frequent in Turkey, which registers a dozen of this type of tremors per year, and normally do not cause major damage to homes or infrastructure.
The Turkish Kandilli seismographic observatory locates the epicenter of the tremor in Bor, a municipality about ten kilometers southwest of the provincial capital of Nigde, a city of 230,000 inhabitants in southern Cappadocia.
The region is about 200 kilometers west of the areas devastated by the earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 on the 6th, which have caused more than 44,000 deaths and almost two million homeless people.
Those extraordinarily strong tremors may have caused a readjustment of several tectonic plates that are now manifesting themselves in moderate earthquakes in neighboring areas, but they do not suggest a new disaster of greater magnitude, geophysicist Okan Tüysüz explained to NTV.
