The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) announced on Tuesday that the Kuwait National Seismic Network (KNSN) recorded a 4.4 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale in the southwestern part of the country.
In a press statement, KISR said that the earthquake, which struck the Al Manaqish area, occurred at 1:27 pm Kuwait local time.
The statement noted that the network detected the earthquake at a depth of five kilometres underground.