An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was recorded on the Lebanese-Syrian border on Wednesday evening

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2023/02/08

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.

Weather of Arabia - The Syrian National Seismological Center announced that an earthquake measuring 4.3 degrees on the Richter scale and a depth of 30 km was recorded, at 21:58 local time.

And the official Syrian news agency "SANA" reported this evening, Wednesday, that an earthquake had been felt by the residents of Damascus, Aleppo, Latakia and Homs.

Lebanese media indicated that a new aftershock was felt by the Lebanese population in different parts of the country.

 

For its part, the Jordanian Seismological Observatory recorded, at exactly 9:58 pm Jordan time, an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 10 km, and its center was the Lebanese-Syrian border.

 

It is noteworthy that this earthquake is considered light, but the reason for the residents' feeling of it is due to the fact that the depth of the earthquake is shallow, less than 30 km in the ground, which makes the residents feel it, and there are others on which the residents feel the tremors depend, the most important of which is the nature of the soil. Buildings erected on it.

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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