An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shakes Greece and is felt by the Egyptians on the outskirts of Cairo

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/11/21

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"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - A violent earthquake was recorded, felt by the Egyptians in the suburbs of Greater Cairo and the Delta governorates, at about one thirty in the morning, Monday (Egyptian capital time).</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The competent authorities and some scientific bodies in the countries of the Mediterranean basin announced that the tremor was a wave of a violent earthquake that struck Crete, southern Greece, with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center had stated earlier that the magnitude of the earthquake was 6 degrees, and later revised it to 5.4 degrees, then to 5.7 degrees, and added that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 kilometers.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ro" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Preliminary info: M5.7 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"... ( <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82?s...σεισμός</a> ) about 80 km NE of Agios Nikólaos ( <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Greece?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gr... ) 6 min ago (local time 01:24:58). Updates at:<br /> <a href="https://t.co/LBaVNedgF9">https://t.co/LBaVNedgF9</a><br /> <a href="https://t.co/AXvOM7I4Th">https://t.co/AXvOM7I4Th</a><br /> <a href="https://t.co/wPtMW5ND1t">https://t.co/wPtMW5ND1t</a> <a href="https://t.co/i9e8lgMpQ6">pic.twitter.com/i9e8lgMpQ6</a></p> — EMSC (@LastQuake) <a href="https://twitter.com/LastQuake/status/1594473447488380928?ref_src=twsrc%5... 20, 2022</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"> It is noteworthy that the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea is often subject to earthquakes, and light earthquakes occur in the Mediterranean basin on an almost daily basis.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Egypt earthquake in 92</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is noteworthy that the earthquake that Egypt was exposed to in 1992 was one of the earthquakes that had the most impact on Cairo after the earthquake of 1847 AD, which occurred in the afternoon of Monday, corresponding to October 12, 1992 AD, at exactly three o&#39;clock and 9 minutes in the afternoon, with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter, and its surface center was near The city of Dahshur, which is 35 kilometers away from Cairo Governorate, which caused unprecedented destruction of many buildings and the death of many people.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

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