See the Scenes of the Recent Earthquake Scare in Kaduna (Photos)

Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency in the North-west region have undertaken an assessment of one of the communities in Kaduna State where an earthquake scar was recorded.

Upon receiving several distressed calls of multiple series of earth tremor in Kwoi community, NEMA North West Zonal Coordinator, Alhaji Musa Ilallah immediately led an assessment team comprising of the agency's staff and that of Nigeria Geological Survey Agency to the scenes of the incident.

Having been taken round the affected areas by the Chairman of the local government, Mr. Ben Kure and authorities of the community, the assessment team discovered that loud sound waves was reported.

He stated: "We observed that there was no physical crack on the rock surface, the road or any earth surface but a number of buildings particularly mud houses were shattered by cracks as a result of the tremor".

Residents in Kwoi lamented that the strange phenomenon which occurred at about 10:20am when people are still in church service shook the earth severely six times and this created panic in the community.

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