Earthquake of Magnitude 4 Strikes Southern Egypt’s Aswan Province

An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale hit northeast of Aswan, in southern Egypt today, and the Egyptian National Institute of Astronomical and Geophysical Research said in a statement that the quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers. below the surface of the earth, 17 km northeast of the city of Aswan in southern Egypt. According to the institute, as a result of tremors, neither material losses nor human casualties were recorded.