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Three Minor Earthquakes Hit Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Tamara Zieve - On Thursday an earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale was reported in Tiberias and Safed in northern Israel. On Wednesday night, Haifa and Western Galilee felt a quake measuring 4.5, and earlier Wednesday, the same region felt a tremor measuring 4.1. Additional quakes were recorded by instruments of the Geophysical Institute of Israel. No damage or injuries were reported. Israel is on the Dead Sea Rift. In 1837, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Galilee, killing thousands, and in 1927, a 6.2 quake killed 500 people and damaged the Aksa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.