Mild earthquake hit southern Palestine

Mild earthquake ground, on Friday, the Dead Sea area on the eastern border of the occupied Palestinian territories, felt by a section of the people of the area and population of the Negev south of occupied Palestine in 1948, without leading to casualties or damage.

The sources said "Israeli Geophysical Institute," The tremor was "very light"; where the intensity was a little less than 3 degrees by "Richter" scale to monitor the strength of earthquakes.

The Palestinian territories witnessed in recent years, a number of small earthquakes, while warned "Earthquake Center" at An-Najah National University in Nablus (north of Jerusalem), the occurrence of "violent" earthquake in Palestine a magnitude of up to 7 degrees.

He explained that the reasons for the possibility of a Palestinian suffered a strong earthquake, due to its location in the geographical area dubbed the "Rift Valley", which is limited to between the Arabian Plate and the African plate, which Tptaadan from each other by 5 to 7 millimeters per year, which means generating pressure on the rock leads to the inability of layers Earth afford, and thus occurrence of earthquakes.

Among the most important earthquakes in Palestine throughout history; the first of January / January 1837 earthquake, with its epicenter in the city of Safed, has spread its impact on the whole region and the number of victims to five thousand people and destroyed because of the city of Safed and more than 17 Palestinian villages in northern Palestine territories.

As for the 11 July earthquake in 1927; was the epicenter of Jericho and rippling effect as far north as Lebanon and south down to the Negev, and caused the deaths of 350 people and the destruction of 800 houses in the Nablus area.

The last earthquakes occurred in Palestine on September 13 / September 1954 and hit the central region of the country and parts of the Negev, but it was weak, did not remember the losses occur.

Studies indicate that Palestine is under average conditions in the major earthquake one every century and a hundred earthquakes each year, but many of them do not feel their rights either to weakness or to occur the night hours.

The Israeli sources, estimated to lead a strong earthquake in the occupied Palestinian territories more than 16 thousand people for the killing.

He says a professor at the University of earthquakes, "Ben-Gurion," Ron Avni, "the region suffered a violent earthquake and a strong pat is not excluded and may occur during a time not long ago."

Israeli expert pointed out that few weak tremors that hit the region recently warning of the possibility of large and destructive earthquakes in the coming period, expected to be a sudden earthquake and Sria.ufema respect of losses caused by the earthquake, he explained that the electricity and the Internet and mobile networks will collapse completely.