An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale occurred this Wednesday morning in northern Palestine and was felt in the northern West Bank and Galilee in the lands of 1948. The earthquake lasted, according to geological monitoring centers, 10 seconds and occurred at a depth of 18 km in the eastern Mediterranean.
It is noteworthy here that last Monday a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and the Antakya region in southern Turkey.
Radwan Al-Kilani, director of the Palestinian Seismological Observatory at An-Naja University, confirmed that “the shaking that Palestine is experiencing in the current period has more than one explanation, including a connection with regular activity in Palestine, which is becoming local.” faults that intersected with the Faraa-Carmel fault, and may be related to the Great Earthquake that occurred in Turkey and Syria, due to the fact that Palestine is part of the fault system that caused the earthquake, and thus stimulated some seismic sources located along the fault crater or crossing it on secondary slabs.
