quarry explosion

Probe into Lebanon’s Zahle quake points to quarry blast

According to the investigation, the quake at 2:15 p.m. was “caused by an explosion in quarries in the Tweiti area, owned by two people from the Abu Hamdan family”
The quake measured magnitude 3 on the Richter scale, according to Marleine Brax, director of the National Center for Geophysics

By NAJIA HOUSSARI · 13 June 2023