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Two earthquakes hit northern Jordan on Wednesday morning, 50 kilometers northwest of Irbid town, over the Tiberias lake area of 4.2 degrees and 3.2 degrees on the Richter scale. The first occurred at 4:50 with a force of 4.2 on the Richter scale and at a depth of 10 kilometers, followed by another 8 minutes and at the same place another earthquake measuring 3, 2 degrees and at a depth of 10 km.
It was felt by the northern inhabitants of the kingdom, especially the city of Irbid and its surroundings.
Jordanian earthquakes recorded on October 31, 2016 earthquake earthquake 4.2 shocks of magnitude 3 on the Richter scale at a distance of 115 km and a depth of 9 kilometers south of the city of Aqaba on the Red Sea. In the Wadi Araba region in early February of the same year, a magnitude 4 earthquake was recorded and an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 south of Aqaba in July 2015.
The city of 39; Aqaba was hit by a violent earthquake November 22, 1995
Various regions of the Kingdom, especially the southern regions, are experiencing seismic activity in the destruction pit of the Syrian-African rift, which makes them vulnerable to tremors ground because of the movement of the plates in the soil.
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