A magnitude 3.4 earthquake centred in Los Gallardos is felt in the early hours in Arboleas, Albox and Fines
The IGN recorded a magnitude 3.4 earthquake north-west of Los Gallardos at 05:31. In the Valley it was felt most in Arboleas, Albox, Fines and Cantoria.
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The ground shook in the early hours in the Almanzora Valley. Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN) recorded an earthquake of magnitude 3.4 this Monday, at 05:31, with its epicentre north-west of Los Gallardos, in Almería’s Levante. Its maximum intensity was IV and it was felt in more than twenty towns and villages in the province, several of them in our district.
According to the IGN data reported by Andalucía Información and El MIRA, the place in the Valley where it was felt most was Arboleas, with intensity IV, the same as in Lubrín. Next come Albox and Fines (III-IV); Cantoria and Líjar (III); and Zurgena, Olula del Río and Purchena (II-III). It was also felt, more weakly, in Serón.
Magnitude measures the energy released by an earthquake; intensity, how it is felt in each place. Grade IV is what the IGN scale calls “widely observed”, a level at which no damage is expected. In fact, none of the reports published this morning mention any damage.
It was not the only tremor of the night. Earlier, the IGN had recorded two other earthquakes with their epicentre in Bédar, also in the Levante: one of magnitude 2.8 at 23:09 on Sunday, which reached intensity III, and another of 1.9 at 04:25.
The data for the three earthquakes and the intensity map for the Los Gallardos one can be consulted on the IGN website, in the latest earthquakes section. The institute itself warns that they may change once it finishes reviewing the seismic analysis.
