The Saudi Geological Survey reported that seismic monitoring stations recorded an earthquake in the middle of the Red Sea, 161 kilometers west of Al-Laith Governorate in the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, at 12:09 a.m. on Saturday.

The authority added on its website that the magnitude of the earthquake reached 4.7 on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was at a depth of about 10.4 kilometers.

The US Geological Survey also reported, on Saturday, that two earthquakes had been recorded in the Red Sea region.
The agency said on its website that the first earthquake had a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale, and was about 197 kilometers northeast of the Sudanese city of Tokar. .

The second tremor reached a magnitude of 4.2, and was about 174 kilometers northeast of the same city.