BULENT KILICA man speaks on the phone Feb. 21 in front of collapsed buildings, a day after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the region, in the coastal city of Samandag in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by the Feb. 6 tremor .
This was one of the most intense of the thousands of aftershocks that have followed the Feb. 6 earthquake, which to date has claimed more than 47,000 lives and more than 122,000 injuries in the border region.