Hargeisa (Berberanews) — Residents of Hargeisa city were awaken to the movement of an earthquake that began at 2:27am this morning and lasted for twenty five seconds. Resident’s storm into the streets after the powerful earthquake hit the city this evening. There are no damages being reported at this time and the magnitude of the earthquake is still unknown due the fact that the country does not have any geological surveys.

Mohamed Hussein a medical student at university of Hargeisa who SomalilandPress was able to chat with in Facebook informed us that the earthquake lasted about twenty five seconds, Mr. Hussein goes on to say “I was awake when the earthquake began, however the rest of the family were sleep and were awaken by the earthquake. All the windows and house hold items were shaken due to the earthquake”.
Earthquakes are not frequent in Hargeisa city however in the town of Borame it is a common place for earthquakes and at times small magnitude of that is felt in Hargeisa city. SomalilandPress will report more once we receive more information regarding this morning’s earthquake in Hargeisa City.
Source:SomalilandPress