The seismic surveillance center under the National Météorological Institute recorded yesterday, Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 10:59 p.m. (local time) a telluric shock of a magnitude of 3.56 ° on the Richter scale.
According to preliminary analyzes, its epicenter was located at 35.75 longitude, and 8.99 latitude, 12.2 km, northwest of the Rouhia region (Siliana governorate).
This new telluric shock is the third, recorded since Saturday and the fifth in the space of twelve 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, Monday January 29, 2024, 12 kilometers from the south-east of Mezouna (governorate of Sidi Bouzid).
On Saturday, the seismic stations of INM recorded, 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.
On January 24, a telluric shock was recorded in the northwest of Kairouan 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, more precisely in the southeast region of Kerkennah (sea coast).
Note that a telluric shock with a magnitude of 3.4 ° on the Richter scale, had been recorded, on December 12, 2023, near the coasts of Sidi Bou Saïd. 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.
