Residents sit in front of a building partially damaged by an earthquake in Nahr al-Bared, northern Lebanon, on Feb. 6, 2023. (Credit: Michel Hallak/ L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — A 2.5 magnitude tremor took place on Tuesday at 5:41 a.m., with its epicenter located in the Marj area of the western Bekaa district, reported the Geophysics department of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Bhannes.
This tremor follows several seismic episodes this month in Lebanon and neighbouring countries, including one that occurred in the west Bekaa last Monday with a magnitude of 2.4.
In a press interview earlier this month, Marlene Brax, director of the National Center for Geophysics, explained that this type of event results from natural seismic activity in the eastern Mediterranean, emphasizing that there is currently no cause for concern.
Lebanon is traversed by the Yammouneh fault, which runs for nearly 200 kilometers beneath Mount Lebanon. This fault is part of the larger Levant Fault, stretching from southern Turkey to the Red Sea in the South.
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