A new telluric shock has been felt in Tunisia, the second since Saturday evening and the fourth in the space of eleven days.
The seismic surveillance center under the National Institute of Meteorology recorded a telluric shock of a magnitude of 3.2 ° on the Richter scale, this Monday, January 29, 2024 at 5:44 am (local time), announced the INM today.
Its epicenter of a longitude of 34.47 ° and a latitude of 9.88 °, is located 12 kilometers from the south-east of Mezouna (governorate of Sidi Bouzid).
On Saturday, the INM seismic stations recorded at 10:14 p.m. a seismic shock of a magnitude of 3.5 ° on the Richter scale in the southwest of the city of El Kattar, in the governorate of Gafsa.
Its epicenter was located at a latitude of 35.77 ° and a longitude of 9.98 °, about 13.4 kilometers northwest of the Kairouan region.
On January 24, a telluric shock was recorded in the northwest of Kairouan around 12:42 am and reached a magnitude of 3.5 ° on the Richter scale.
A telluric shock of a magnitude of 3.4 ° on the Richter scale was also recorded, on January 18, 2024 in Kerkennah at 11:30 am, more precisely in the southeast region of Kerkennah (sea coast).
Note that a telluric shock of a magnitude of 3.4 ° on the Richter scale, had been recorded, on December 12, 2023, near the coast of Sidi Bou Saïd, of the governorate of Tunis.
The shock had been felt in the areas of El-Bouhaïra 1 and 2, Aïn Zaghouan, El-Aouina, La Marsa and even on the side of Ariana, at the Cité El-Ghazala.
Far from the most active seismic areas, Tunisia only knows telluric tremors and not real earthquakes, being in a moderate seismicity area. There is therefore no place to worry in particular for tremors of magnitude less than 4 ° on the Richter scale, which remain frequent worldwide.
The last earthquake experienced by Tunisia was that of 1970, of magnitude 5.4 ° on the Richter scale, whose epicenter was recorded on the side of Chaouat.
