AMMAN — The
Jordan Seismological Observatory (JSO) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral
Resources recorded 818 seismic activities during 2021 and more than 50
earthquakes in 2022, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported Saturday.
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The seismic activities included local and
regional earthquakes; 432 distant tremors were recorded, the majority
concentrated in the Pacific and Indian oceans, the JSO added.
Jordan is located on the eastern edge of the
Dead Sea, on the fault line extending from the Red Sea gulf in the south to
southern Turkey, in the north, some 1,100 km.
The Levant has been a seismically active
region throughout history, with mostly tremors that can barely be felt.
JSO is the Kingdom’s sole official body that
owns seismic monitoring devices, its head, Ghassan Sweidan, said.
Work is under way to prepare a seismic hazard
study for the Petra region; 50 percent of natural vibration points in the
target area have been completed during 2021, he said.
Sweidan also said that two new seismic
monitoring stations have been installed at Al al-Bayt University and Al-Asha
region, on the northern border, in Irbid, bringing the total seismic monitoring
stations to 22 countrywide; they work round the clock all year round.
On January 23, Sweidan told local media
outlets that an earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale was felt by the
residents of northern Jordan.
The last time Amman was hit by a big earthquake was 95
years ago (July 11, 1927, at 3:04pm). The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.3 on
the Richter scale.
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