Two earth tremors hit communities in Jaba Local
Government Area in Southern Kaduna.
The first
one occurred at Kwoi, at about 10:30am on
Sunday, September 11th. Hours later, another
earth tremor hit Sambang Daji village, also in
Jaba, on Monday. Residents were said to have
fled in panic.
Upon receiving several distressed calls of multiple
series of earth tremor in Kwoi community, NEMA
North West Zonal Coordinator, Alhaji Musa Ilallah
immediately led an assessment team comprising
of the agency's staff and that of Nigeria Geological
Survey Agency to the scenes of the incident.
Having been taken round the affected areas by
the Chairman of the local government, Mr.Ben
Kure and authorities of the community, the
assessment team discovered that loud sound
waves was reported.
He stated:
"We observed that there was no physical crack on
the rock surface, the road or any earth surface
but a number of buildings particularly mud
houses were shattered by cracks as a result of
the tremor".
Residents in Kwoi lamented that the strange
phenomenon which occurred at about 10:20 am
when people are still on church service shook the
earth severely six times and this created panic in
the community.
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