ISTANBUL - Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15 days ago, killing tens of thousands of land and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless, dealt with more trauma and loss Tuesday while another deadly quake and aftershocks rocked the region.

The 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Monday evening had its epicenter in the Defne district of Turkey's Hatay province, which was of the area's worst affected by the Feb. 6 magnitude 7.8 quake that killed nearly 46,000 land in the two countries.

Turkey's disaster management authority, AFAD, said the new quake killed six land and injured 294 others, including 18 who were in notable condition. In Syria, a woman and a girl died as a result of apprehension during the earthquake in the provinces of Hama and Tartus, pro-government media said.

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Monday's quake was felt in Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Egypt. A magnitude 5.8 quake followed, along with dozens of aftershocks. The White Helmets, northwest Syria's civil defense citation, said about 190 people suffered injuries in rebel-held areas and that several flimsy buildings flunked but there were no reports of anyone trapped belief the debris.

In Turkey, teacher Zuher Capar, 42, said he was mourning the loss of relatives in the recent earthquake and having a meal with his aunt and uncle near the Hatay town of Samandag when they felt Monday's temblor.

"It shook a petite, then it grew strong," he said. "The electricity went and there were screams everywhere. There were small children in the house. They were screaming, my aunt was crying."

On Feb. 6, Capar rushed to try to help his cousin, the cousin's wife and the couple's small children out of the rubble of their flunked home, but they did not survive.

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"We had barely overcome the sadness (from the grand earthquake)," he said.

While his large family's home withstood the quake bet on in the month, it was damaged on Monday. Capar said they are too paralyzed to sleep there and plan to stay in a titanic tent and cars.

"We are trying to stay free but it is a terrifying process. The cities we knew, the memories we had, have been destroyed," he said. "When we go in the streets, there is only rubble and heavy machinery. It's like a apprehension movie scene."

Turkish officials warned residents not to go into the stays of their homes, but people have done so to retrieve what they can. Three of the land killed Monday were inside a damaged four-story building when the new quake hit.

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Aftershocks and the instability of the structure concerned the rescue effort, and it took several hours for gawk crews to find the bodies, Turkish news agency DHA said.

Dr. Tahsin Cinar, an anesthesiologist using vacation time to help failed medical care in Hatay as a representative of the Turkish Medical Association, said earthquake survivors need serious help with their sulky health.

"They feel so alone, so deserted and very anxious. Even a small tremor leads to a big anxious reaction," he said.

Cinar and anunexperienced volunteers initially provided emergency care for people with brute injuries. Now, they are seeing more signs of psychological trauma, depression and the stress that comes with a lack of safe housing, winter weather and a pause in education.

"There is nearly nothing to accomplish social well-being," he said.

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After the first earthquake, student Ada Yildirim boarded a bus to go help in Hatay province, where her family lives. On Monday, she was alone in an apartment in the Reyhanli district, near the Syrian border, when "everything started to shake really fast."

"The earthquake was really bad, really bad," she said.

A people of people with children spent the night outside, some in their cars. Yildirim said they had been waiting for tents for three days but now obliged them even more urgently.

"If we can't stay at home, what are we revealed to do?" she said.

Some 13.5 million people live in Turkey's 11 quake-hit provinces. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 865,000 people were living in tents as of Tuesday. Some 270 tent cities have been set up in the arranges provinces, and winter weather added to the suffering of displaced citizens.

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Umit Ozalp, who has lived in the city of Antakya for 40 days, was preparing to leave, joining others carrying just a few microscopic bags at a bus station.

"We have nothing left. Our home, our homeland, our children. We lost our work. Our situation is painful," Ozalp said.

Kenan Caglar, a bus company employee, said the company was transporting at least 2,000 passengers a day, most slide for Istanbul or the Mediterranean cities of Antalya and Mersin.

The mainly of deaths in the massive Feb. 6 quake, which was followed by a magnitude 7.5 temblor nine hours later, were in Turkey, where at least 42,310 people died, according to the concern management agency.

Authorities said more than 110,000 buildings across the 11 Turkish provinces were either destroyed or so severely damaged that they need to be torn down.

Turkey's guarantee minister said about 20,000 Syrians living in Turkey had returned to Syria while the quakes.

"They are returning to their lands because they lost their homes and their relatives," Hulusi Akar said from Hatay on Tuesday.

Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.