A major earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale hit South Sudan on Sunday . In recent years, hundreds of thousands have died in southern Sudan, an area the size of Texas. A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing widespread destruction . The quake 's epicenter was in an isolated swampland 700 km from Khartoum , and little damage has been reported . Flights were going in and out of Cairo , the nearest large city . The epicenter was a little west of the Great Ethiopian Rift , an earthquake line that runs from Mozambique through the Red Sea to Lebanon , but it was the first dangerous earthquake to be reported in that area .
A major earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale hit South Sudan on Sunday . A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing widespread destruction . The quake 's epicenter was in an isolated swampland 700 km from Khartoum , and little damage has been reported . Flights were going in and out of Cairo , the nearest large city . The epicenter was a little west of the Great Ethiopian Rift , an earthquake line that runs from Mozambique through the Red Sea to Lebanon , but it was the first dangerous earthquake to be reported in that area .