3.6 Light Earthquake Shakes Northern Palestine

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Published today (updated) 21/03/2010 13:43

Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies -

A light earthquake was felt across northern Palestine (which Israel illegally annexed in 1948, in violation to the Partition resolution of 1947) on Saturday evening, the Geophysical Institute of Israel said.

No injury or damage was reported in the quake, measuring 3.6 on the Richter Scale, the Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

The quake, whose epicenter was just north of the Sea of Galilee at 8:45pm, was not an unusual event, the institute was quoted as reporting.

According to the newspaper, an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale was felt across Israel, Lebanon and Syria in February 2008.

The same month, a quake measuring 4 on the Richter Scale hit Israel and the northern West Bank. There were no injuries, but it opened a meter-wide hole at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and damaged homes in Nablus.

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