Earthquake Felt in Several Lebanese Regions
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Residents of several Lebanese regions felt an earthquake on Sunday afternoon.
The tremor was felt in the capital Beirut, the Mount Lebanon areas of Keserwan and Jbeil, and the northern regions of Tripoli and Batroun, according to state-run National News Agency.
"At 3:23 PM, residents of coastal areas felt a 4.2-magnitude earthquake whose epicenter lies five kilometers north of Jbeil on the Lebanese coast," state-run Bhannes National Center for Geophysical Research said.
Media outlets quoted center officials as saying that the tremor occurred at a depth of 24 kilometers.
In December, 2013, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 was felt in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. The NCGR said at the time that the quake struck between Beirut and the Keserwan town of Ajaltoun.
According to the center, over 600 earthquakes with magnitudes below 3 degrees hit Lebanon each year.
More than 20 earthquakes were reported between the regions of Bikfaya and Aley on March 15, 2012.
In 1956, a 6 degrees on the Richter scale earthquake struck Lebanon, killing 136 people and destroying 6,000 houses.
Y.R.
25 May 2014, 16:01
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The Gods are angry with the Maronites for causing the presidential vacuum.
25 May 2014, 16:15
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oh stop it, qassem its plate tectonics, happens all around the world has nothing to do with political drama. lebanon seems to be no exception for earthquakes. just hope no one was hurt or injured in lebanon.
25 May 2014, 16:15
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oh stop it, qassem its plate tectonics, happens all around the world has nothing to do with political drama. lebanon seems to be no exception for earthquakes. just hope no one was hurt or injured in lebanon.
25 May 2014, 16:40
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god is vibrating you and pushing you to elect a president ya 7elwin
25 May 2014, 16:55
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@abou.omar: so if we elect a president, we will be safe from an eartquake?! :P
26 May 2014, 11:58
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IBn libnan... Go stick a hundred chop sticks into the ground around your house and see what happens. No one can or has drilled into the "core of the earth" as this would cause molten iron to spew out. My farts have just as much to do with earthquakes as the oil drilling in the Mediterranean does. As FT says, it's the ever changing and moving tech plates that are the sole cause of earthquakes (and maybe the Maronites as well :)
