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
