{"id":360573,"date":"2026-08-03T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/360573\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:04:08","slug":"magnitude-5-3-earthquake-strikes-egypt-shaking-felt-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/360573\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes Egypt, shaking felt in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck near Suez in northeastern Egypt, causing strong shaking near the epicenter and noticeable tremors as far away as Cairo.<\/p>\n

The earthquake struck at 3 a.m. local time on Monday and was centered 41 kilometers (28 miles) north of Suez and 113 kilometers (70 miles) south-southeast of Port Said, according<\/a> to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).<\/p>\n

The earthquake had a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), which is considered shallow and can result in stronger shaking at the surface.<\/p>\n

The earthquake was clearly felt across the region, with some people near the epicenter reporting strong shaking. Tremors were also widely reported in Cairo.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve experienced an earthquake this strong,\u201d one social media user said. \u201cThe whole house was shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several Android users reported receiving an earthquake warning on their phones seconds before the shaking began.<\/p>\n

Earthquakes of this strength are relatively unusual in Egypt, although tremors from earthquakes elsewhere in the region are occasionally felt in the country.<\/p>\n

One of Egypt\u2019s deadliest earthquakes in modern history struck near Cairo in October 1992. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake killed more than 500 people and caused widespread damage.<\/p>\n

The massive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023 were also felt across parts of Egypt, particularly in the northern city of Alexandria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck near Suez in northeastern Egypt, causing strong shaking near the epicenter and noticeable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[166263,21085,1982,173069],"class_list":["post-360573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-cairo-egypt","tag-earthquake","tag-egypt","tag-suez-egypt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117028891075091626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}