Sunday 22 / December / 2024
Muscat: An earthquake was detected 239 km away from the city of Salalah, with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale.
The Earthquake Monitoring Centre at Sultan Qaboos University said that an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale at a depth of 10m occurred in the Arabian Sea at 2.06 pm local time.
The centre stated that the earthquake was 239 km away from the city of Salalah in the Dhofar Governorate.
