Over 4-magnitude quake hits Yemen

SANA'A, Jan. 17 (Saba) - An earthquake measuring
4.3 on Richter scale was registered on Sunday by the Earthquake and Volcanoes
Monitoring
Center in Dhamar governorate.
The earthquake hit an area, seven kilometres southeast the governorate, at 4 : 04
am on Sunday.
The centre mentioned that prior slight quakes have been registered, of which the
strongest was on 2.8 Richter scale at 19:43 (world time) of the same day.
The quakes were classified by the canter as slight ones, adding that the centre
specialists are following-up the seismic records ceaselessly all over the country
and the
regional waters.
The center head Jamal Sha'alan said that most of the citizens in Dhamar city and
surrounded villages have felt the tremor, adding that no casualties were reported.
Dhamar city has been hit by a 6-magnitude quake in 1982. The quake claimed the
lives of 2500 people and about 25,000 injuries in addition to devastate around
15,000 houses
completely and 50,000 houses partly.
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