Havva Tuncay was living in a tent set up in the centre of the Turkish city of Antakya when another earthquake hit on Monday night. She had been having trouble sleeping after the first shocks left Havva and her children homeless two weeks ago.

“I cannot sleep at night. Is the same thing going to happen, are we going to experience another earthquake? We are very scared. I haven’t slept for a week,” she told Reuters outside her tent.

Minutes later the ground began to heave beneath her feet, toppling the stove stack on which a teapot stood boiling.

The night sky lit up with sparks in the distance, reflecting off the clouds covering the sky above Antakya as the ground shook.

The damaged buildings surrounding the park — the few that remained upright after the earthquakes two weeks earlier — rumbled violently, as more of their facades fell off. Dust rose from the ground with the crash of concrete and bricks, blanketing the sky and hindering visibility. Some buildings around the park continued to creak minutes after the earthquake.

Yelling, crashing sounds and cries of “God is greatest” resonated through the camp in a central park as panic took hold, with people running out of their tents, some without shoes. Some grabbed hold of their children and partners and sat huddled together, some ran around helplessly. Others were violently thrown to the ground.