00:00peace be upon you and welcome to a new episode of your show small show today we
00:08today is thursday september 24 2026 and it is the 13th of rabbi al-akhir 1448
00:20so basically we're in it already
00:25while we're about to enter the middle of the lunar month in the middle of the hijriman
00:29a clear and strong earthquake it actually struck about 15 minutes ago i mean it just hit turkey
00:38with an initial magnitude of 5.5 some observatories recorded it at 5.3 on the richter scale
00:47it struck eastern turkey and this earthquake struck at a depth of exactly 10 kilometers below
00:56the surface of the earth in fact the epicenter of this earthquake is the turkish city of urfa
01:02and it is known that this turkish city which is located almost in eastern turkey
01:08is a border city or rather close to the turkish syrian border
01:13certainly in turkey and several other countries people felt this uh earthquake in turkey for
01:21example they felt it in urfa in diyarbakir in marash in gaziantep and other turkish cities as well as in
01:30iskenderun as for syria the earthquake's impact reached syria they felt it in idlib hama aleppo latakia
01:41and tartus and i even saw that some people said they felt it in damascus but let's be clear
01:50when we say some people felt it it doesn't mean everyone did only a few actually felt it
01:57the situation in syria is not different when it comes to feeling the earthquake either
02:02they felt this earthquake in lebanon as well there are reports from lebanon that beirut and tripoli
02:09or rather some of the residents of beirut and tripoli which overlooked the mediterranean sea
02:16also felt this earth
02:20but the strange thing is that there are reports that our people in egypt in the arab republic of
02:29egypt also felt this earthquake there are people from dakalia and mansura who felt it
02:36and these are cities in the arab republic of egypt where this earthquake was felt apparently their
02:41number is very small but there are some who felt this earthquake i don't know if any of our people
02:47in the egyptian capital cairo felt the earthquake let them write in the comments too what caused this
02:53earthquake what is the cause of this earthquake honestly this is one of the very few and rare areas
02:58near orfall where an earthquake strikes in eastern turkey the turkish police let's see let's monitor
03:05these aftershocks and see if this earthquake could be a precursor to a stronger a very powerful or major
03:14earthquake we will keep you updated as things develop i was with you of course the damage so
03:18far since the earthquake just happened we still don't know what happened i will keep you updated on
03:22the damage as it happens i was with you this is hamad ahmad al-dara known for the program what's
03:28happening for good
