Monitoring stations at Syria’s National Earthquake Centre have recorded 14 earthquakes in the past 24 hours.

The National Earthquake Centre said on Facebook on Tuesday that it recorded a 3.3-magnitude earthquake in the centre of the country on Monday, as well as 13 earthquakes east of the Syrian city of Hama, the largest of which measured 5.3 on the Richter scale.

The main earthquake was the result of “the accumulation of energy during the previous period within the secondary faults associated with the Dead Sea Fault, while the aftershocks of the main earthquake are weaker aftershocks,” the centre added.

In February last year, nearly 25,000 people were killed and tens of thousands injured in a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria.