A minor earthquake shook central Israel Sunday, an official at Israel's Geophysical Institute said.

Seismologist Rami Hofstetter said the tremor, which occurred at about 11:00 A.M., was a 4 magnitude quake. No injuries or damage were reported.

It was the second such temblor in the space of a week.

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The Syrian-African rift, one of the world's major fault lines, runs
north-south along the eastern edge of Israel and the West Bank - under the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea and the Jordan River, which connects the two bodies of water.

Mild quakes are common in the area.