There are reports of another earth tremor in Gbawe and its immediate environs in the Ga South Municipal Assembly, Cedidollar.com has learnt.

The tremor occurred around 11:30pm Saturday with residents in the neighborhood taking to facebook and other social media platforms to announce their fears and anxieties.

“The earth just shook a bit here,” Michael Oti, a Sports journalist with TV3 posted on his facebook wall. Several others on his timeline confirmed to have experienced similar tremor around the same time with most of them staying around New Bortianor, Kasoa and McCarthy Hill.

“23:37GMT My area registered an earth tremor…Did you experience it, too?” Another resident, Bishop Benjamin Kwame Tawia posted on his facebook wall.

There has yet to be an official confirmation of the tremor or how serious it is.

If confirmed it will be the third time in less than three months residents living in that environs have complained about earth tremors.

On January 13, an earth tremor measuring 2.6 on the Richter Scale hit parts of Accra at 5:01pm the Ghana Geological Survey Authority (GGSA) confirmed.

It lasted about six seconds and was believed to have occurred about 18 km away from the Achimota Station of the GGSA.

The epicentre of the tremor was around Weija, a senior seismologist at the GSA, Mr Nicholas Opoku, confirmed

In December a similar tremor was announced which triggered calls for people living in and around Weija, Gbawe, McCarthy Hill, Kasoa etc to be relocated.

The area has been described as an earthquake prone zone.

Worse still are people living on the Weija ridge where houses have been built on sedimentary rocks held together by clay and which could be washed away in a potential mudslide.

The call for an immediate evacuation of persons living on the Ridge is heightening as fears of a major disaster looms.
It is not clear yet what action officials will take in the wake of Saturday’s tremor.