Two Strong Earthquakes in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia
Two Strong Earthquakes in the Red Sea Near the Saudi Arabian and Sudanese Coasts The US Geological Survey (USGS) made the announcement on July 24 that two strong earthquakes had been detected in the Red Sea.
The initial earthquake measured 4.7 on the Richter scale, according to the USGS’s website, about 197 kilometers northeast of Tokar town in Sudan’s Red Sea state.
The subsequent seismic tremor, around 174 km upper east of Tokar, estimated 4.2 on the Richter scale.
The authority representative for the Sudanese government cited the Saudi Topographical Overview, which expressed that seismic observing stations kept a quake in the Red Ocean, 161 km west of the Al Laith governorate at a profundity of 10.4 km at precisely 12:09 today.
Up to this point, there have been no reports from Saudi Arabia and Sudan of misfortunes brought about by the quakes.
Red Sea Rift A ridge that separates the African Plate and the Arabian Plate tectonic plates is the Red Sea fault line. The Red Sea Rift was created when these plates diverged. According to magnetic anomalies, the Red Sea’s spreading rate is approximately one centimeter per year.
Dr. Zuhair Hasan El Isa of the University of Jordan claims that volcanic activity is responsible for more than 90% of the seismic activity in the Red Sea.
The biggest tremors of the most recent couple of a very long time in the locale, notwithstanding, show that two deficiencies are dynamic on the side of a different climate between the Middle Eastern and African plates,” El Isa expressed in his concentrate in 2015.
