JSO: Turkey's earthquake cause no damage
21-02-2023 09:32 AM
Ammon News - The head of the Jordan Seismological Observatory (JSO), Ghassan Sweidan, said that the only earthquake that Jordanians felt was yesterday, Monday evening, with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale.
In a statement to Ammon, Sweidan said that the earthquake's epicenter is about 450 kilometers from Amman, indicating that there was not much severe damage caused by the earthquake, though there may have been a few incidents of panic.
Sweidan called on the citizens to calm down and not panic and the need not to be afraid, noting that earthquakes are unpredictable..
It is noteworthy that there were 20 aftershocks in Turkey, with magnitudes ranging from 3.5 to 4.5.