Algeria rocked by new earthquake

ANOTHER earthquake struck Algeria yesterday, causing some injury and damage and terrifying thousands on the Mediterranean coast already too scared to live at home after a devastating quake last week.

“A violent tremor struck Algeria at 3:15am measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale,” said Mohamed Hamadache, a researcher at Algeria’s Geophysical, Astronomical and Astrophysics Research Centre.

The quake, the fourth in just over a week, shook the capital Algiers and towns to the east. The official toll from last week’s quake is 2,251 dead and 10,243 injured, but hundreds are still unaccounted for.