Two Earthquakes Reported in Al Fujairah
- Publish date: Thursday، 22 December 2022 Reading time: 1 min read
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Two minor earthquakes have been recorded in Fujairah early Monday. The National Centre of Meteorology wrote a tweet about the event, which added that no damages or injuries were reported.
A 4.4 Magnitude Earthquake on Richter scale is recorded in South of Iran at 13:38, 23/05/2021 "UAE time” According to the NCM “National Seismic Network”
— المركز الوطني للأرصاد (@NCMS_media) May 23, 2021
The centre calrified that that first earthquake struck Dibba Al Fujairah with a 3.1-magnitude quake at a depth at 5 km at 4:54 am, while a second quake measuring 2.3 on the Richer scale was recorded in the same region at 7:24 am.
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"Fresh winds reaching 40 km/hr causing blowing dust and reducing the horizontal visibility to less than 1500 m over some coastal and internal areas from 10:30 until 19:00 Monday 24/05/2021." said the centre about the weather on Monday.
Image Credit: Safad Dam from Fujairah Instagram
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