{"id":572589,"date":"2026-08-03T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/572589\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:34:10","slug":"tremors-felt-in-southern-israel-after-earthquake-strikes-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/572589\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremors felt in southern Israel after earthquake strikes Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Tremors were reportedly felt in southern Israel and the Dead Sea area in the early morning hours on Monday after an earthquake struck Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.4 and hit at a depth of 6 miles, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Egyptian Red Crescent said it activated its emergency response plan in the governorates where the quake was felt, but that it had so far received no reports of casualties or damage to property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In a statement, the Red Crescent urged residents to avoid buildings showing signs of damage and to rely on official updates as authorities continued to assess the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">An alert recieved on Android devices in Israel said that an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale had occured in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel&#8217;s Home Front Command Center added that there were no warnings regarding potential additional earthquakes in Israel, adding that the earthquake occured in the Sinai Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tremors were reportedly felt in southern Israel and the Dead Sea area in the early morning hours on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[100368,5543,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-572589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-earthquake","tag-egypt","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}