After the cyclone, now UAE wakes up to earthquake rumors

In a statement issued on Sunday, the NCMS warned against unofficial predictions spreading through text messages and social networking websites, and urged citizens and residents in the UAE to get weather information only from authorised and reliable sources.

The National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) has cautioned public against believing rumors of an earthquake in the northern parts of the UAE.

The NCMS forecast for this morning till 9am read: partly cloudy weather in general and cloudy at times over the northern and the eastern areas, with another fall in the day temperatures over most areas