Jordan: A 3.5-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Madaba

Written By طقس العرب on 2023/08/28

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - The Jordanian Seismological Observatory announced that it recorded an earthquake measuring 3.5 degrees on the Richter scale, northeast of Theban city in Madaba Governorate, at dawn today</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Where the director of the observatory, Eng. Ghassan Sweidan, said that the tremor was recorded at exactly 3:09 am, and occurred at a depth of 7 km.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He added that this earthquake is considered a weak earthquake, which may be felt by some citizens close to the earthquake site.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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