Reuters saw Turkish rescue teams rushing on foot after the latest quake to check on residents, most of whom were living in makeshift tents after tremors two weeks ago.
Muna al Omar, a resident, said she was in a tent in a park in central Antakya when the quake struck.
“I felt the earth explode from under my feet,” she said as she cried with her 7-year-old son in her arms.
“Is there going to be another aftershock?” He asked.
Two major earthquakes on February 6, which also shook neighboring Syria, left more than a million homeless and killed far more than the latest official count of 46,000 in both countries.
Smaller tremors have occurred in the region over the past two weeks but Monday’s quake was the biggest since February 6.