- A moderate earthquake rattled parts of
Israel early Wednesday, shaking Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for several
seconds.
No damage or injuries were immediately reported.
It has been also largely felt in Amman as well as in Damascus.
- "The earthquake was strongly felt in
Amman and the northern area of Jordan. People were afraid and evacuated
their buildings. No reports on damage or casualities were made.
At RSS, we have a single station and our calculations indicate a
magnitude of ML=5.4 at a distance of about 50 km from Amman. Here is a
scanned copy of our analog record, at 10:15 am local time, the total
length of the record is about 533 sec.
Aftershocks recordson
RSS station.
Miss Hanan S. Al-Nimry, PhD.
Senior Engineer
Building Research Center Royal Scientific Society
Email: hsnimry@rss.gov.jo
Web site: www.rss.gov.jo
- This event was largly felt in and around
Damascus till the Syrian Lebanese border. No damage was reported.
Ryad Darawcheh. AECS. Syria
- Jordan Seismological Observatory
An Mc :4.9 Magnitude Earthquake On The NW Dead Sea Region February 11th
2004
A moderate earthquake 4.9 magnitude (Mc) shocked
the northeast part of the Dead Sea area at 08:15 UTC on 11 February
2004.
The location of this earthquake was at latitude
31.679 N, longitude 35.585 E with a focal depth of 21 km.
The earthquake was felt strongly in the region
especially in the north direction from the epicenter in the Dead Sea
region. No casualities were reported.
Twenty aftershocks were recorded by the Jordan
seismological Observatory till 04:00 UTC 12 Febrauary 2004. The
location
of the aftershocks were distributed in the eastern direction along the
Zarqa Ma'in branch
fault. This fault is one of the east-west branches fault that runs
perpendicular to the Dead Sea main fault.
Abdel-Qader Amrat
Cheif, Jordan Seismological Observatory
jso@nic.net.jo
- Thanks God, we are fine now after the
Earthquake of yesterday. It caused
cracks in some old masonry buildings in Nablus and Bethlahem.
An Mc: 4.9 Magnitude Earthquake On The NW Dead Sea Region Feb 11th 04 A
moderate earthquake 4.9 magnitude (Mc) was shocked the
northeast part of the Dead Sea area at 08:15 UTC on 11 February 2004.
The location of this earthquake was at latitude 31.679 N, longitude
35.585 E with a focal depth of 21 km.
The earthquake was felt strongly in the region especially in the north
direction from the epicenter in the Dead Sea region. No causalities
were
reported.
Twenty aftershocks were recorded by the Jordan seismological
Observatory
till 04:00 UTC 12 February 2004. The location of the aftershocks was
distributed in the eastern direction along the Zarqa Ma'in branch
fault.
This fault is one of the east-west branches fault that runs
perpendicular to the Dead Sea main fault.
Radwan El-Kelani
Earth Sciences and seismic Engineering Center
An-Najah National University
Nablus
Palestine
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