00:00Welcome to a new episode of your show, What's Happening.
00:04Today is Sunday, 9.8 and 26.0.
00:08In the last episode, I mentioned that the Earth is experiencing a magnetic solar storm,
00:14and I pointed out some of the physical symptoms people are experiencing today.
00:19We also talked about what those symptoms are.
00:22In case you missed the last episode, go check it out and listen.
00:25We also said that the magnetic solar storm indirectly affects the occurrence of earthquakes and tremors
00:31and acts as a contributing factor to earthquakes and tremors.
00:38And indeed, what I talked about happened, and what I was warning about actually occurred.
00:43An earthquake is now striking the African continent.
00:46An earthquake is hitting a very sensitive area for Egypt and Sudan, namely Ethiopia.
00:53An earthquake struck less than half an hour ago, hitting Ethiopia with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter
01:01scale.
01:01The epicenter of the earthquake or the tremor is the Ethiopian city of Awash,
01:06which is very close and belongs to the province or state of Hetahara.
01:14From the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the epicenter of the earthquake is about 70 to 75 kilometers away from the
01:24capital.
01:24Did people in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, feel this earthquake?
01:30Of course, and they also felt it in Awash and Metehara.
01:34The danger from earthquakes in Ethiopia always comes from a fault line.
01:37Any earthquake that hits Ethiopia always comes from a fault line.
01:42Whether in Sudan or in Egypt, this earthquake definitely had an impact.
01:46It didn't reach Egypt or Sudan, but why is it dangerous?
01:50Because Ethiopia has the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is one of the greatest dams in Ethiopia,
01:56and it holds a huge amount of water behind it.
01:59The Nile River and the Nile River's source is in Ethiopia.
02:03Ethiopia is the upstream country, and my country is Egypt.
02:09It holds behind it at least about 45, or now it's become 50 billion cubic meters of water,
02:16which is a very, very huge amount.
02:18The danger from earthquakes that strike Ethiopia is that, God forbid,
02:22if these earthquakes affect the Renaissance Dam, or affect the foundations of the Renaissance Dam,
02:27or the construction of the Renaissance Dam, that's when the disaster would happen.
02:31The disaster would be enormous if this dam were to collapse.
02:35But the question that arises is, does the epicenter of the earthquake in Awash City affect the Renaissance Dam,
02:42the epicenter?
02:43This particular earthquake, it doesn't affect it.
02:46I'll put the map up on the screen for you now.
02:48It's clear, and I've drawn and designed it clearly.
02:50The distance between the epicenter of the earthquake that just struck and the Renaissance Dam is about 700 to 720
02:59kilometers,
03:00which is a very long distance for an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 to have any effect,
03:06unless the earthquake is of magnitude 7.
03:08So that's a different matter, because the Renaissance Dam is located in the Juba area,
03:14almost on the border, about 40 kilometers away from the Ethiopian-Sudanese border.
03:20And the distance from the Renaissance Dam in Juba to the city of Awash in Metahara is about 720 kilometers.
03:27There is no impact.
03:28In front of you on the map now, so thank God, with the strength of this earthquake,
03:34there is no clear and direct danger to the Renaissance Dam.
03:39Let's proceed then.
03:40I'm Ahmad al-Drama.
03:41Welcome, and may good things happen to us.
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