Fear grabs residents of Weija as earth tremor hits the area

Residents of Weija, Gbawe in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region on Sunday morning experienced a slight earthquake.

The tremor swayed buildings and caused panic among the residents which some of them ran out of their homes at around 7:50 am.

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“Just experienced an Earth Tremor in the Weija/Mccarthy Hill area, My heart just missed a couple of beats,” a resident wrote on Facebook.

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“I felt it in my room this morning and I nearly run out of the room,” Isaac Buaku also said on Facebook.

A Twitter user tweeted; “Just felt this serious Earth Tremor, crazy stuff.”

Accra is considered an area to be earthquake-prone, especially the McCarthy Hills Weija area.

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According to Collins dictionary, earth tremor is a relatively small or short-lived movement of the earth’s surface caused by the same forces that produce earthquakes.