3.3 magnitude earthquake northwest of the Dead Sea

Written By ندى ماهر عبدربه on 2024/12/30

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.

Arab Weather - The Jordanian Seismological Observatory recorded, on Monday, an earthquake measuring 3.3 degrees on the Richter scale, at a depth of 6 km, northwest of the Dead Sea in the Karameh area.

The head of the Earthquake Observatory, Ghassan Sweidan, said that the earthquake occurred at exactly 1:30 pm today, and no one felt it.

He explained that the recorded earthquake was minor and did not affect the infrastructure in the region.

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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