Minor earthquake 2.8 magnitude recorded in Damour

BEIRUT — The National Center for Geophysics, part of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), announced Thursday morning that it recorded a 2.8-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale at 6:34 a.m. (local time) off the coast of Damour (Chouf).

A series of moderate seismic events have occurred throughout January, especially over the past week. On Tuesday, minor tremors of magnitude 2.5 were recorded in West Bekaa, while another earthquake detected in Syria, in the Serghaya area, with a magnitude of 3.1, was also felt in Lebanon.

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Among other recently recorded tremors were those felt in Beirut on the night of Jan. 10 to 11.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a U.S. scientific agency, this was a 4.1 magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter about sixty kilometers off the capital's coast, at a depth of around ten kilometers.

In an interview with the press, the director of the National Center for Geophysics, Marlene Brax, explained that this type of event is part of the natural seismic movement in the eastern Mediterranean, emphasizing that “there are currently no worrying signs.”

Lebanon is crossed by the Yammouneh fault, which runs for nearly 200 kilometers under Mount Lebanon. It is part of the larger Levant fault, stretching from southern Turkey to the Red Sea.