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Earthquake strikes Abyan, extends to Bayda, Yafea

DHAMAR, Feb. 11 (YPA) - The stations of the Yemeni Center for Monitoring and Studying Earthquakes and Volcanoes recorded a light earthquake in Abyan province, southern Yemen, during the early hours of Tuesday. The head of the monitoring…

Second earthquake hits new area in Hodeida

HODEIDA, Feb. 03 (YPA) - Earthquake monitoring stations recorded an earthquake in the coastal Al-Khokha district, south of Hodeida governorate. The seismic bulletin issued by the center stated that monitoring stations recorded a mild local…

Earthquake hits Hodeida in west of Yemen

HODEIDA, Jan. 23 (YPA) - The Yemen Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Study Center announced, on Thursday, that its monitoring stations recorded a noticeable earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale in the Hays district of Hodeida…

Seismic center records earthquake in Lahj

DHAMAR, Jan. 23 (YPA) - Yemeni seismic stations recorded on Thursday an earthquake south of one of the districts of Lahj province. A bulletin issued by the Center for Monitoring and Study of Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Dhamar province…

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,…