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Earthquake hits district in Dhamar

DHAMAR, Jan. 18 (YPA) - The stations of the Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Study Center recorded, on Saturday, an earthquake west of Dhamar governorate. The head of the Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Study Center in Dhamar…

Monitoring stations detect earthquake west of Gulf of Aden

DHAMAR, Jan. 13 (YPA) - The Center for Monitoring and Study of Earthquakes and Volcanoes reported that its stations recorded an earthquake on Monday in the western Gulf of Aden. Engineer Muhammad Hussein Mutahar Al-Houthi, head of the…

5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 04 (YPA) - An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Ethiopia at 00:52 GMT on Saturday, according to the German Research Center for Geosciences. According to Ethiopian media, it was not immediately possible…

4 magnitude earthquake hits Iran’s Khuzestan

TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (YPA) - An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale struck the city of Haftakal in Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran on Friday, without any reports of human or material losses. The Iranian National Earthquake…

Earthquake hits area near Yemeni coast

MUSCAT, Dec. 06 (YPA) - An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale struck the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, east of Yemen, on Thursday. Seismic and volcanic stations indicated that the earthquake, which occurred near the eastern…

Earthquake strikes Jordan, Egypt

AMMAN, Oct. 31 (YPA) - An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck this morning, Thursday, south of the Gulf of Aqaba in Jordan. According to the Seismic Observatory in Jordan, the earthquake was 150 kilometers south of Aqaba,…

Earthquake hits south of Sanaa

SANAA, Oct. 09 (YPA) - Earthquake and volcano monitoring stations recorded on Wednesday a mild earthquake south of the capital, Sanaa. The head of the National Center for Monitoring and Studying Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Mohammed Hussein…

Hebrew media: Earthquake hits Israel for the third time

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Aug. 22 (YPA) - Hebrew media reported that for the third time in a few weeks, an earthquake had struck Israel. According to the Geological Institute in the Occupied Territories, it indicated that at 17:30, an earthquake…

5.2 magnitude marine earthquake hits Gulf of Aden

SANAA, March 18 (YPA) - A strong marine earthquake struck on Sunday off the coast of a Yemeni city amid expectations of a series of tremors and marine earthquakes in the coming days. The earthquake struck the Gulf of Aden with a magnitude…