6.4 quake hits Turkey

Ankara, Feb 20 Just two weeks after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake, a strong tremor, measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, struck southern Turkey on Monday night, reports said.

The tremor occurred at 8.04 p.m. (local time/10.34 p.m. IST), Turkey's disaster and emergency agency Afad said, the BBC reported.

The February 6 earthquake left more than 44,000 people dead in Turkey and Syria,

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