The National Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics in Egypt announced on Wednesday morning that a seismic tremor with a magnitude of 4.86 on the Richter scale was recorded.

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The quake occurred approximately 502 km north of Damietta Governorate, without causing any human casualties or material damage, as confirmed by Dr. Taha Tawfik Rabeh, the institute’s director, in a statement regarding the tremor.

He stated that the earthquake took place at a latitude of 35.94 degrees north, a longitude of 31.76 degrees east, and at a depth of 8.48 km.

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Dr. Abbas Sharaqi, a professor of water resources and geology at Cairo University, recently disclosed details of an earthquake that struck Egypt’s northern coast. He noted that the earthquake, with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale, occurred northwest of Cyprus at a depth of approximately 60 km.

The Egyptian expert explained that the quake’s epicenter was located south of Turkey in the Mediterranean Sea and was followed by a minor tremor with a magnitude of 2.7 and a depth of about 13.5 km.

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He further elaborated that the main quake occurred at the boundary where the “Eurasian” and “African” tectonic plates meet, and that these plates are converging at a rate of 4 to 10 millimeters per year.

Dr. Sharaqi also mentioned the major earthquake in Turkey in February 2023, which had shifted the Anatolian block 6 meters towards the Mediterranean.

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He added that the 60-kilometer depth of the quake is significant for Mediterranean earthquakes. The deeper the epicenter, the wider the seismic waves spread across the surface, with less destructive impact even in the earthquake zone itself. This explains why the tremor was felt in Cairo, 650 kilometers away.

It is worth noting that at the end of October, a seismic tremor with a magnitude of 4.25 on the Richter scale and a depth of about 8.5 km was recorded approximately 12 kilometers off the coast of the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh, as documented by Egypt’s National Seismology Network.

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