At least 13 people have died and 203 injured after an quake, measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale, struck Northern Tanzania on Saturday, BBC reported.
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The star on this map shows the epicenter of a 5.7-magnitude natural disaster that struck northern Tanzania on Saturday afternoon.
Tremors could be felt as far away as western Kenya, in parts of Uganda, and in Rwanda.
A 5.9-magnitude quake hit northwestern Tanzania, killing 11 people and leaving dozens wounded, state media reported.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake had an epicenter of 10 kilometers in Nsunga area, 44 kilometers from Kagera’s capital Bukoba, close to the western shore of Lake Victoria. “We’ll see tomorrow”, Deodatus Kinawilo, district commissioner for Bukoba, told AFP.
“For now, the situation is calm and under control”, Kinawilo said.
Augustino Nduganda, an officer with the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) in Mwanza region, confirmed that there was a huge quake, but he said it was too early to give details. “We don’t expect many more injuries”.
Photos posted to social media show significant damage in the city of 70,000, according to the BBC.
Rescue workers said local hospitals were full and could not cope with the number of injured.
Another correspondent for the news agency said “the walls of my home shook” in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
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East Africa’s Great Rift Valley runs along a geological fault line but major earthquakes there are rare.
