YEMEN Press Agency

Yemeni earthquake center records undersea quakes in Red Sea, Indian Ocean

SANAA, Feb. The stations of the Yemeni Center for Monitoring and Studying Earthquakes and Volcanoes recorded, on Tuesday, an undersea earthquake and a tremor in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean regions.

The head of the monitoring center, Eng. Mohammed Hussein Al-Houthi, reported that the first earthquake measured 3.3 on the Richter scale and occurred in Gulf of Tadjoura, south of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, at the entrance to the Red Sea, at 6:17 AM.

Al-Houthi added that the second undersea earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and occurred in the Indian Ocean at 8:00 AM.

 

@E.Y.M