By SPA
Beirut : A moderate earthquake hit southern Lebanon in the early hours Tuesday, causing no damage but sending many panicked residents into the streets in the coastal town of Tyre, DPA quoted police sources as saying Tuesday.
The quake struck at 2:20 am (0020 GMT) and measured 4.0 on the Richter scale, according to Moueen Hamze, head of Lebanon’s National Centre for Scientific Research.
“The quake was six kilometres east of Tyre,” Hamze was quoted as saying in radio reports.
The last earthquake of this magnitude in Lebanon occurred in 2001 with its epicentre in the eastern Bekaa region and was felt in the capital Beirut, Hamze said.
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