Ammon News - President of the Jordanian Seismological Observatory (JSO) Ghassan Sweidan revealed that 1,227 earthquakes were recorded from the beginning of 2025 until the end of November.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Sweidan said these tremors were distributed among local, regional, and long-distance earthquakes, with the observatory recording 102 local earthquakes, 562 regional earthquakes, and 563 long-distance earthquakes.

He pointed out that the local tremors included several areas in Jordan, where 19 earthquakes were recorded in the Dead Sea region, 10 in Aqaba and the Red Sea, 13 in the Wadi Araba region, and 21 in the Jordan Valley and Tiberias, in addition to recording 3 tremors in the Ruwaished and Al-Sarhan regions, and 36 tremors in the neighboring areas, indicating that the highest of them was an earthquake in the Gulf of Aqaba, 60 km from the Jordanian shores, with a strength ranging between 1 and 4.2 degrees on the Richter scale.

The 562 regional tremors ranged in magnitude from 3 to 6.2 on the Richter scale, with most concentrated in the Mediterranean region. Meanwhile, the more distant tremors ranged in magnitude from 4.2 to 7.5 on the Richter scale, with the majority of these occurring in eastern Russia, Sweidan added.

The local seismic activity in 2025, compared to the seismic activity in 2024, was less in terms of the number of recorded tremors, stressing that seismic activity in Jordan in general is not considered unusual, according to Sweidan.