A major earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Great African Rift hit Southern Sudan on Sunday . A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing widespread destruction. A major earthquake rumbled through the jungles of southern Sudan on Sunday near the war-torn region's largest city, but officials said there appeared to be no casualties and little damage. The quake's epicenter was in an isolated swampland 600 miles from Sudan News Agency , and little damage has been reported. Flights were going in and out of Juba , the nearest large city. The epicenter was a little west of the Richter Scale , 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 6.6 on the Great African Rift hit Southern Sudan on Sunday . A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing widespread destruction. The quake's epicenter was in an isolated swampland 600 miles from Sudan News Agency , and little damage has been reported. Flights were going in and out of Juba , the nearest large city. The epicenter was a little west of the Richter Scale , 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.