Nigeria Allays Fears Of Earthquake After Abuja Tremor

Abuja City gate

Chief General of the Nigerian Geological Survey, Alex Nwegbu, on Friday guaranteed occupants of Abuja that there was no reason to get excited, on the back of the earth tremors that hit Nigeria's seat of intensity Abuja. 

Nwegbu gave this consolation at a question and answer session held in Abuja. 

"Thus, we may very well get low level earth tremors. For those at Mpape, insofar as you're not in danger from a building or home fall, they are sheltered to come back to their homes," he asaid. 

"When we got gives an account of the fifth, we scattered our Geoscientists to find out the reason. We checked for the power utilizing certain parameters utilized in checking these things. We saw no breaks on building dividers and on the grounds, suggesting it's an earth tremor of low force." 

The DG included, "Our kin are still in the field so we are as yet getting more data to know the starting point of the earth tremor and where it was activated from. 

"The Buhari organization has been useful in empowering us to produce our Geoscience information. We are set to convey our hardware in the 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria. This will empower us to get firsthand data on when the tremors are set to happen so as to caution occupants around."