The first comment from the `Geological Survey` regarding recording an earthquake in Jizan and revealing its details

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - The spokesman for the Saudi Geological Survey, Tariq Aba Al-Khail, stated that the stations of the national seismic monitoring network in the Saudi Geological Survey recorded an earthquake this morning, Saturday, corresponding to 01/28/2023, at 05:27:54: 42 km southwest of Abu Arish with a seismic magnitude of 2.99 on the Richter scale and a depth of 6.59 km.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84?src=hash&amp;ref_sr... Urgent</a> :<br /><br /> The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D... Geological Survey recorded <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%87%D8%B2%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6%D9%8A%... earthquake</a> 42 km away in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86?src=hash&amp;... region, southwest of Abu Arish, with an earthquake magnitude of 2.99 on the Richter scale and a depth of 6.59 km <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%... /><br /> We ask God to preserve the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its land and its skies <a href="https://t.co/rfHyUb4h36">pic.twitter.com/rfHyUb4h36</a></p> - Khaled Al-Hamid (@ khhk1437) <a href="https://twitter.com/khhk1437/status/1619264049333821444?ref_src=twsrc%5E... 28, 2023</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He attributed the cause of this earthquake as a result of the tensile forces in the southern Red Sea region, which is exposed to openness as a result of the divergence of the African tectonic plate from the Arabian plate, which caused the occurrence of reactivation of the cracks present in the earth&#39;s crust in the Arabian plate parallel to the Red Sea and perpendicular to it, causing seismic activity.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And that this earthquake is considered weak in terms of seismic magnitude and does not constitute any step, praise be to God. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn4.premiumread.com/?url=https://al-marsd.com/almarsd/uploads/i... style="width: 800px; height: 711px;" /></p>