Algeria rocked by new earthquake
“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.