An earthquake strikes north of Tiberias and is felt by the residents of northern Jordan

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/07/13

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<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Arab Weather</strong> - Today, Wednesday, the Jordanian seismological observatory recorded an earthquake measuring 3 on the Richter scale, according to the director of the Jordanian seismological observatory, Ghassan Sweidan, as the earthquake struck north of Lake Tiberias at exactly 11:43 am, at a depth of 5 kilometers.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Suwaidan said that a number of residents of Irbid governorate felt an earthquake the moment it occurred.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to Sweidan, through the observatory of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Jordan owns <strong>22 seismic monitoring stations</strong> distributed throughout the Kingdom to monitor earthquakes, whether inside or outside Jordan. Medium.</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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