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Spain lies on the Eurasian plate just to the north of its boundary with the African plate. The southernmost part of Spain is the zone with the highest seismicity in the country. The African plate is obliquely converging with the Eurasian plate at about 5 mm/year. [1]
The 2011 Lorca earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Lorca de 2011) was a moderate 5.1 M w [2] earthquake that occurred 6:47 p.m. CEST (16:47 UTC) on 11 May 2011, [7] near the town of Lorca, causing significant localized damage in the Region of Murcia, Spain, and panic among locals, and displacing many from their homes.
This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. ... Spain, Valencia, 1 km (0.62 mi) south-southeast of Alfafara: 2.9 5.0 III One home destroyed in the Ontinyent area.
List of earthquakes in Spain; 0–9. 1428 Catalonia earthquake; 1522 Almería earthquake; 1755 Lisbon earthquake; 1761 Lisbon earthquake; 1790 Oran earthquake;
The 2016 Alboran Sea earthquake struck offshore, north northeast of Al Hoceïma, Morocco in the Strait of Gibraltar on 25 January at 04:22:02 UTC, or roughly 05:22:02 West Africa Time. At its strongest in the Alboran Sea , the earthquake measured 6.3–6.4 on the moment magnitude scale (M w ) at a shallow hypocenter depth of 12 km (7.5 mi).
Residents on Spain's La Palma island braced Wednesday for the possibility of bigger earthquakes that could compound the damage from a volcano spilling lava more than five weeks since it erupted.
An animation of the earthquake swarm from the start until 19 September. An earthquake swarm started under Cumbre Vieja on 11 September 2021. It slowly migrated to the surface, with earthquakes of up to around mb Lg magnitude 3.5, [24] [25] and more than 22,000 earthquakes were recorded in the space of a week. [26]
Earthquakes in Spain (14 P) F. Floods in Spain (11 P) H. Hurricanes in the Canary Islands (3 P) V. Volcanic eruptions in Spain (5 P) W. Weather events in Spain (7 P)