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Shadwan
Shadwan ((アラビア語:شدوان)) is a barren rocky island 30 miles southwest of the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula and 20 miles notheast of el Gouna. It is the largest of a group of islands in the mouth of the Gulf of Suez in the northern Red Sea and measures in length, and between wide.〔 It was formerly also called Shaker Island and features a lighthouse. The island is famous as a touristic site for underwater diving and fishing.
== Earthquake ==
On 31 March 1969 the island was the site of an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the surface wave magnitude scale. The earthquake caused some damage including numerous rock falls. On 9 April 1996 a station of the Hurghada Seismological Network began operating on the island with the aim of gaining information on the seismotectonics of the southern Gulf of Suez region. The station is operated by solar batteries and the seismic data is transmitted by telemetry to the Hurghada Seismological Center in Hurghada.〔
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