According to the American agency, more than 75 earthquakes have been recorded in Turkey. 

CNN writes about it.

According to the US Geological Survey, at least 77 aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 or greater occurred after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey on Monday morning local time.

Three aftershocks were of magnitude 6.0 or greater, including a magnitude 7.5 quake that struck 95 kilometers north of the main quake's epicenter.

The aftershocks extend more than 300 kilometers along a fault zone that has ruptured in southern Turkey, oriented southwest to northeast and extending from the Syrian border through Malatya province.

In Syria 

, the sister of the country's Prime Minister 

Husein Arnous died as a result of the earthquake.

After today's strong earthquake, a strong fire broke out

in the Turkish port of Iskenderun, located on the border with Syria .

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