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02:37 pm
Tuesday 15 December 2020
Youssef Afifi wrote:
Dr. Gad El-Kady, President of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, sent several urgent messages to citizens about the ongoing rumors about Egypt’s entry into the Zalal belt as a result of repeated earthquakes during the recent period. .
Today, Tuesday, the judge told Masrawy: “The institute welcomes everyone to verify and correct the information that circulates on the recurrence of earthquakes and astronomical phenomena.” We are very happy to hear the information. “
He stressed that the institute opens its doors at any time according to the dates allowed for the visit and to know the devices, be it an earthquake network or astronomical observatories, so that the information reaches everyone and we have a conscious society in accordance with the reading and awareness instructions of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
The judge added that the correct and documented information that everyone seeks is present in the institute, while returning to all national and technical institutes that have the scientific acumen to correct any information and drive away rumors.
And the head of the National Institute of Astronomical Research continued: “I would like to tell the citizens, who are very calm, Egypt is completely safe and away from the albumin belt despite the frequent earthquakes of recent times.”
The stations of the National Seismological Network of the National Institute of Astronomical Research have registered a series of earthquakes in recent times, among them: last November 14 with a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale, the second on November 18 with a magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale, and the third occurred on Sunday, November 22. The past in the delta region has a magnitude of 3.5 degrees on the Richter scale, and on December 11, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.2 degrees on the Richter scale, 19 km west of 6 October, and today Tuesday, December 15, an earthquake occurred 12 km southeast of Aqaba.
