Light Earthquake Felt in Israel
An earthquake was felt in Israel on Tuesday evening. The Seismological Division of the Geological Survey of Israel said, “Tonight at 11:14 p.m. Israel time, an earthquake of magnitude 3.5 occurred 15 kilometers southeast of Ariel.” • Full Story
Via Arutz Sheva
An earthquake was felt in Israel on Tuesday evening. The Seismological Division of the Geological Survey of Israel said, “Tonight at 11:14 p.m. Israel time, an earthquake of magnitude 3.5 occurred 15 kilometers southeast of Ariel.”
The Home Front command noted that “an earthquake warning was not activated, because it was not an earthquake that endangers the residents of Israel.”
Residents in the Jerusalem area and parts of Judea and Samaria reported that they felt the earthquake.
A resident of Beit El told Israel National News he felt a “split second jolt” and “heard something that did not sound like the thunder” he had heard earlier in the evening.
Thus far, there are no reports of injuries or damages.
Tuesday’s earthquake follows the devastating earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria overnight Sunday and which was also felt in Israel. That earthquake has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks, including one early Tuesday morning which measured 5.6 on the Richter scale.
On Tuesday, officials from the World Health Organization warned that the death toll in Syria and Turkey following the earthquake could top 20,000.
An IDF Medical Corps, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Health medical aid delegation will depart Israel on Wednesday and head to southern Turkey.
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