Almotamar Net - Citizens from the district of Kafr, governorate of Ibb told almotamar.net Saturday that their area came under an earthquake whose reverberation resounded the entire area.

Sunday, 17-August-2008
Almotamar.net - Citizens from the district of Kafr, governorate of Ibb told almotamar.net Saturday that their area came under an earthquake whose reverberation resounded the entire area.
While local sources in the district clarified to almotamar.net that according to information the quake did not cause any human or material loses except for fear and panic among the area's residents , deputy chief in the governorate mentioned that he received reports from separate villages on feeling the quake at 9:15 pm and lasted for one second. Seismography units in Thamar were still observing information on the quake.

At later time director of the national network for monitoring quakes Abdulhakim Ahmed Abduljabbar said according to preliminary information of the unit the quake happened between the area of al-Qafr and Samar in Ibb governorate, 30km away from Thamar governorate that it in 1982 came under the biggest earthquake disaster Yemen has ever witnessed, indicating that its power registered 2.8 degrees.


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