CAIRO: A total of 50 light aftershocks have followed Saturday’s 5.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Egypt, announced the National Research Institute of Astronomy & Geophysics (NRIAG.)
Citizens did not feel any of the aftershocks, NRIAG’s head Abu el-Ela Amin told Youm7, adding that the highest one measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. He said that the aftershocks “emerged from the same epicenter of the first tremor.”
A strong tremor was felt across Egypt Saturday at 5:34 pm; the earthquake’s epicenter was detected in South East Sinai.
Amin noted that Saturday’s tremor emerged from the same epicenter of Egypt’s violent Gulf of Aqaba earthquake in 1995, which is also known as Nuweiba earthquake.
There were no reports on causalities or major devastations after the earthquake. Cairo governorate issued a statement saying there were no damages detected following the tremor, and that the only incident was “a partial collapse in old building, already scheduled to be removed.”
Following the tremor, Twitter users reported that they felt the earthquake across Jordan, Gaza, Israel and northern Saudi Arabia.
Additional reporting by Mohamed Mahsoub and Maged Tamraz.