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Earthquake measuring 6.3 shakes Egypt PDF Print E-mail
Written by Egypt News   
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
An earthquake is measuring 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale hits Egypt on Tuesday morning and felt by the population of Cairo and some provinces
The earthquake has occurred at 6.26 am local time and was focused Rades Island in the Ega Sea between Turkey and Greece, said President of the National Institute for Astronomical and geophysical research Mr. Salah Mohamed Mahmoud, according to Egypt’s Middle East news.

 
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Meanwhile, the Egyptian witnesses said that the earthquake that occurred in the early morning awakening from sleep because of his great shock. But there are no details about casualties or material losses.
The National Observatory in Athens said that an earthquake is measuring 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale occurred Tuesday off Dodikanez Islands (southeast Greece).
The earthquake's center is located at a depth of 13 kilometers on the island of Rhodes, which lies in the Ega Sea, said Athens Institute for the Study of vacuums.
According to the American Geophysical Institute in Washington, who also pointed to the quake that occurred after 64 kilometers from the island of Rhodes in the archipelago of Dodikanez and after 147 kilometers south-west of Mugla in Turkey.
The earthquake expert Avtimos Likas said for the television station "Net", "the earthquake may cause a small Tsunami but this may be very mild if the earthquake center was at a depth of a large."
It is half the shocks recorded in Europe annually in Greece, said Chairman of the National Earthquake, Dr. Abul-Ela Ameen.
Often, Greece faces earthquakes that Egypt's populations feel it, especially the northern parts but most do not cause serious damage.

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