Strong earthquake before the coast of Portugal

Sagres/Algarve © Google Earth (openPR) - Lisbon and parts of the southern Iberi peninsula were shaken on Monday of yesterday at 10.36 o'clock by an earthquake. According to official sources in Spain and Portugal it was the strongest earthquake for over 30 years. Humans were not hurt, it gave also no considerable damage to buildings.

The exact strength of the quake was unclear: Spanish geographical Institut numbered the strength first with 6,3 on the judge scale, indicated the value later however as 6,1. The authorities in Portugal proceeded from a strength with 5,8.

Its Epizentrum in the Atlantic had quake, 160 kilometers southwest from the Cabo São Vicente with Sagres. In Portugal the earth impacts were to be felt generally speaking country. In Spain they became apparent in the south in cities such as Sevilla, Malaga, Cadiz and Huelva and until Madrid.

At the coasts of Morocco Ausläufer of the quake were to be felt until Rabat and Casablanca. The danger of Tsunamis did not exist according to data of experts. In addition quake not strongly the enough was, it was said. The Atlantic southwest from Portugal is considered as an earthquake-endangered area. At the Epizentrum of the current quake it had given 1969 an earthquake of the strength to 7.3.

For the Seismologen Carlo Sousa olive Irish Republican Army no alarming indication represents quake, since it concerns a cyclic phenomenon and Portugal meets about every 30 years. Reason for this is the situation of Portugal and the Spanish southwest at the edge exactly the line, at which the African one with the Euroasi continental plate meet one another. According to olive Irish Republican Army no reason exists for uneasiness, sea-quake is comparable not with the devastating quake of 1755.

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