Two earthquakes shook northern Israel within a few hours, bringing the total of earthquakes in Israel this month up to four. Scientists are issuing dire warnings of imminent doom, but rabbis point to the prophecies as proof that people who have faith, have nothing to fear and even that the Messiah’s arrival is “speeding up.”
The first earthquake hit at around 9:00 PM on Tuesday night and measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. ts epicenter was located in Jordan, 9 miles northeast of Beit Shean. On Wednesday morning, about ten hours later, a 3.1 earthquake shook the same area.
Teruah (meaning Shofar blast), the new early-warning earthquake system, did not go off because the quakes were determined to be minor and non-life-threatening. The early warning system that was installed in 2019 is composed of 120 sensors running along a 400-kilometer length of the Dead Sea Rift from Eilat to the Golan Heights can issue an earthquake warning of several seconds up to several minutes, depending on the location of the earthquake’s epicenter.
Just two weeks ago, two earthquakes measuring 3.6 and 3.8 hit within 24–hours of each other with epicenters just south of the Kinneret.
According to the Jordanian state news agency Petra, as many as 10 aftershocks were felt in Jordan. However, no damage was reported.
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