Nearly 60,000 tremors have jolted south-eastern Turkey since the devastating twin earthquakes that killed tens of thousands on February 6, 2023, according to the country's disaster authority AFAD.
Fault zone activity is being closely watched in Turkey and the surrounding region, AFAD said on social media platform X, the former Twitter, on Tuesday.
The February earthquake's epicentre, Kahramanmaraş province, experienced an average of 56 earthquakes per day since, state news agency Anadolu quoted Bülent Özmen of Gazi University in Ankara as saying this week.
The city saw 399 tremors per week, and 1,730 per month in the given period, according to Özmen.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit south-eastern Turkey early in the morning on February 6 last year, followed by a another earthquake of magnitude 7.6 the same day.
More than 53,000 people died in Turkey alone, according to government figures. Around 6,800 people died in neighbouring Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan renewed pledges to rebuild the region in a message on X at 4:17 a.m. local time Tuesday - the time of the first quake.
Shortly after the quake, Erdoğan set an ambitious goal of building around 300,000 residential buildings within a year.
His government, however, missed this goal. Erdoğan over the weekend said 200,000 residential units can be ready by the end of 2024.
