People on Monday night experienced an earth tremor measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale.
But chief geologist Charles Kaphwiyo described the tremor, which occurred at around twenty minutes to nine as “quite local.”
He said earth tremors occur everyday only that they were not felt regularly because they were weak.
“We record earth tremors almost every day only that people feel the large ones which shake their windows and roofs,” said Kaphwiyo in an interview from Zomba yesterday.
He said Monday’s tremor was strong enough to demolish “very weak structures” and occurred within a 60-kilometre radius from Zomba where the department’s machines recorded it.
Kaphwiyo said he needed two more recordings to establish the cause of the tremor and its exact place.
