Spain: An earthquake strikes Granada and Malaga
A 6.2 magintude earthquake hit Spain at 00:08 am local time. The epicenter was located 24 kilometers southeast from Granada, 106 kilometers west of Malaga and 341 kilometers south of Madrid.
Unlike other major earthquakes as reported on LALATE in the last 30 days, this earthquake was substantially deep, at 616 kilometres near the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
No aftershocks have yet been reported. People posted via Twitter that the earthquake was felt in Cadiz, Malaga and Murcia.
According to reports, the quake was most felt in the province of Malaga.
Numerous earthquakes are expected in excess of 4.0 magnitude to strike the region in the next 7 days after anearthquake of this strength.
“An earthquake with that depth means little damage is likely,” seismologist Susan Potter told CNN. “When an earthquake is deeper, the seismic energy is absorbed by the Earth, so there will be less damage expected in the epicentre area,” she added.
Meanwhile, about a month ago Spanish Geologist Luis Eugenio Suarez said that Granada could suffer an earthquake within the short term, and with an intensity similar to that of February 27 Cauquenes, Chile earthquake.
Suarez commented that “Spain is not like Chile,” because the latter is located on a high seismic frequency area, but also noted that “once every hundred years, a destructive earthquake is produced in the peninsula.”
The last earthquake that struck Spain was in Arenas del Rey, in Granada, 126 years ago, and reached a magintude 6.6 leaving between 750 and 900 dead, thousands injured and material destruction.
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