"National earthquake"An earthquake 855 km north of Marsa Matrouh was felt by Egyptians

The Acting President of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research, Dr. Taha Rabeh, said that the stations of the National Seismic Monitoring Network affiliated with the Institute recorded today, Friday, at 9:12 minutes and 47 seconds in the morning, Cairo local time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7. On the Richter scale, it is 855 kilometers north of Marsa Matrouh, located in southern Greece.

Rabah confirmed, in a statement issued by the institute today, Friday, that the institute had received information indicating that the earthquake was felt, but that nothing occurred. Loss of life or property.

He referred to the data of the earthquake, which occurred at latitude 37.40 degrees north, longitude 21.50 degrees east, and at a depth of 25 km.