THE Geological Survey of Tanzania said today Bukoba, township in Kagera Region earthquake struck at a depth of 10kilometers.
The GST said in a statement that the
tremor might be triggered by the geological fault line in the Great Rift
Valley since Bukoba, the quake epicenter, is near.
A magnitude 5.7 Richter scale quake, hit
Bukoba on 10/09/2016 at 1527 hours, and killed at least 16 people and
injured over 250, the authorities said.
The reports from the region indicated
that apart from the deaths, 170 people still remained at the hospital
beds fighting for their lives while 83 others were treated and
discharged.
Though the actual cost of damages was
yet to be established, initial official reports indicated that about 840
residential houses crumpled while 1,264 developed cracks.
The country, despite running along a geological fault line of the Great Rift Valley, major earthquakes are rare.
A magnitude 6 Richter scale quake struck the Tanzanian town of Arusha in July 2007
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