Powerful earthquake could hit Israel within a decade
Dead Sea research reveals a pattern of tremors indicating that we are living in a tectonically active period.
Drilling barge in the Dead Sea, 2010.Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University
As if Israelis didn’t have enough to worry about with Covid-19 and threats from enemies like Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, now Israeli researchers are warning that a devastating earthquake measuring at least 6.5 on the Richter scale is expected to hit the region in the coming years.
The dire prediction comes from drilling in the Dead Sea to analyze some 220,000 years of underwater geology.