USGS recorded a magnitude 4.1 in southern Lebanon after Israel said it demolished Hezbollah tunnels under Ali al-Taher Ridge. [1] France 24 filed the tremor with the blast. [1] This paper already printed the demolition. A 4.1 is an instrument reading, not a tectonic quake. Print the number. Do not print a natural earthquake.

A second USGS line is not a second ridge. Position 15 already owns the tunnel claim. This feature only names the seismograph. Do not invent casualties from the tremor. Do not invent a cease-fire.

Four-point-one remains an instrument reading after a demolition, not a tectonic event on this Thursday world desk.
Print 4.1. Print blast, not quake. Thursday is not a natural earthquake under southern Lebanon.

Seismographs don't distinguish demolition from tectonics; analysts do, hours later. The 4.1 arrived with context attached. Thursday's reading was never a mystery, only a measurement.

Ridge blasts register like quakes and read like demolitions; context does the sorting. Southern Lebanon provides plenty. Thursday's number stays an instrument reading.

Thursday's 4.1 stays an instrument reading, not a natural quake. Ridge blasts register like tectonics. Analysts sort demolition from geology.

Seismographs caught a 4.1 after the Ali al-Taher demolition, which France 24 filed with the blast. The wiggle is a blast signature on Thursday's world desk, not a natural earthquake. The tremor carries no casualty line. No cease-fire attaches to the wiggle.
The tremor carries no casualty line. The wiggle is a blast signature, not a natural earthquake. No cease-fire attaches to the wiggle.

The tremor carries no casualty line. No cease-fire attaches to the wiggle. Thursday's 4.1 is a blast signature, not a quake.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo