Updated: 12:47 a.m. ET July 18, 2007
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - A strong earthquake shook northern Tanzania
on Tuesday, one in a series in recent days in the region, officials
said. No casualties were immediately reported.
In the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha, the building housing the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was evacuated for some
time, said Danford Mpumilwa, the tribunal's spokesman.
The quake was felt more than 60 miles away in the capital of
neighboring Kenya, where high rise buildings shook as did coffee
tables and chandeliers in people's homes.
The National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological
Survey gave the quake a preliminary reading of 6.0 on the Richter
scale. Don Blakeman, an earthquake analyst with the center, said in a
telephone interview he was still analyzing the activity.
"This is the seventh earthquake that is above 4.4," since Thursday,
Blakeman said. "This last one is pretty large, I would expect some
more in the coming days, weeks, months but we cannot predict when."
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