A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Turkey’s northwestern province of Balikesir, killing at least one person and causing about a dozen buildings to collapse.

The magnitude 6.1 quake left one person dead and caused 16 buildings to collapse in the north-west Balikesir province.

More than 50,000 people were killed in February 2023 when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake impacted both Turkey and Syria, which Erdoğan called “the disaster of the century.” A tropical rainstorm is predicted to evolve into a hurricane this week over the Atlantic Ocean. The next named storm will be called Erin.