New earthquake measuring 3.2 on Richter scale strikes Lahj

DHAMAR, July 12 (YPA) – The seismic monitoring stations in Dhamar recorded a new earthquake northeast of Lahj Governorate on Sunday marking the 11th tremor detected in the region since the beginning of July.

According to a bulletin issued by the Seismological and Volcanological Observatory Center, the earthquake measured 3.2 on the Richter scale. It occurred at 8:14 AM at a depth of 10 kilometers below the Earth’s surface.

This seismic activity follows the registration of eight earthquakes between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, the strongest of which reached a magnitude of 4.2 in the same region.

The Chairman of the Center, Engineer Mohammed Hussein Al-Houthi, attributed the earthquakes in Lahj to ongoing tectonic activity along the edge of the southern Arabian Plate, near the structural system of the Gulf of Aden belt.

Engineer Al-Houthi noted that the seismic activity was concentrated at the intersection zones of natural faults forming the Ad-Dali’ depression—which run northwest-southeast—with the terminus of faults running northeast-southwest.

YPA