Gad El-Kady, head of the institute, said that the Helwan Observatory, south of Cairo, detected at 10:30 on Thursday morning an earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, with the same epicenter as last Tuesday’s earthquake, which was 6.2 on the Richter scale.
Al-Qadi added in a press conference that the monitoring stations also recorded 3 earthquakes following Tuesday’s earthquake during the past 48 hours, and their degrees varied between 3.2 and 3.4 on the Richter scale.
Thus, the total number of earthquakes that Egypt experienced during the past two days becomes 5, and 6 in two weeks, when it was hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday before last.
As for whether or not Egypt entered the earthquake belt, the head and experts of the Astronomical Research Institute said during the conference that this did not happen and that Egypt is completely far from the earthquake belt.
The head of the Egyptian National Institute for Astronomical Research indicated that people are currently feeling an increase in the number of earthquakes because the equipment of seismic stations in Egypt has been developed with the latest technology, and the use of the best expertise, which made there a great ability to monitor all earthquakes that occur accurately, no matter how low the quake is. .
He pointed out that a policy of announcing all the tremors that Egypt is facing was recently adopted for the sake of transparency, to reassure the people and to eliminate rumors about the imminent end of the world and so on.
He stressed that in one day two to three tremors may be monitored, and they are of low or medium strength, noting at the same time that the expansion of urban construction to remote areas made people feel more earthquakes than before, which makes them believe in an increase in earthquakes and the entry of Egypt seismic belt, but this did not happen.
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