Four earthquakes hit the Dead Sea area at dawn Wednesday, December 26, 2018, at 5:38 am according to the director of the Jordan Seismological Observatory (JSO) Director Mahmoud Qaryoutiy.

The strongest tremor recorded 3.8 on the Richter scale and occurred at a depth of 11 kilometers in the Dead Sea.

Another earthquake shook the Sea of Galilee on the northwestern border of the Kingdom at the same timr.